anxunnan

I work in the narrow space between a brushstroke and a balance sheet. Both are ways of pricing the invisible — one weighs beauty¹, the other weighs risk². My practice lets each discipline read the other: markets as material, paintings as positions.

1. 1

   Keynes likened professional investment to a newspaper beauty contest: the task is not to pick the prettiest face, but the face everyone else will pick. The General Theory, 1936, ch. 12.

2. 2

   Both are marked to market — a canvas at the fall of the hammer, a position at the closing bell.

• Lot 01Noise as MaterialPigment & code on linenArt2026→
• Lot 02Volatility PortraitsArchival pigment print, 30 panelsArt × Fin2025→
• Lot 03The Price of BlueWorking paper, 42 pp.Finance2025→
• Lot 04Ink & IndexInk on xuan paper, eight scrollsArt2024→
• Lot 05Mean ReversionKinetic installation, variableArt × Fin2024→