Imaan Sattar and Yuxiu Xiong are an artist duo from Pakistan and China, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Their material-driven process moves through the intensity of existing when systems are falling apart and dimensions are bending — and the freedom that comes with it. They work with materials as both propellants and symptoms of processes visible and invisible to the human eye, each one carrying the charge of the systems that produced and discarded it. Their work sits between the growing fragmentation of contemporary life and the infrastructures that sustain it — systems that run heavily on material resources yet remain bodiless — asking how the body finds its own scale against forces too large to grasp.
For them, collaboration is the site of the emergence of a third mind — a shared field of sensing and improvising that exceeds individual authorship. They employ long-duration processes in which endurance functions as both method and condition. Through repetition and variation, forms shift, identities loosen, and binaries begin to dissolve — allowing them to question inherited divisions: self and other, ancient and modern, pure and contaminated.
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