Artist statement
Xun's artistic practise investigates distance, intimacy, personal identity, and societal discipline via the perspective of everyday life and immigrant cultural narratives and stories. Video and installation are the primary mediums. Simultaneously, the influence of the new normal and the pandemic period has inspired the artist to focus on the relationship between people and society, displaying a concern for social rules and conjuncture, as well as a preoccupation with ambiguity in her work.
‘the future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.’
——Virginia Woolf
Navigating in the dark
Xun's creative orientation is constantly concerned with negotiating with darkness, a process the artist separates into two actions: negotiation and navigation. The works about navigation, which are based on individual family stories, examine the importance of prior identities in navigating the present. Xun's forefathers were also part of the diaspora in South East Asia because he was born in a location with a rich diasporic culture. The most recent project, 'dragon bone,' focuses on subjects such as surname variants, languages, and alphabets, using first-hand family history testimonies and online sources as instruments to capture the geo-culture of South East Asia and China's southern coastline region. According to Xun, geo-culture comprises, in addition to the physical community, the online communities that arose from that geo.
Conciliating with the Darkness
Conciliating with the Darkness seeks to focus on the relationship between people and what will happen in the field of art in the future, with the related project 'digital salvage' that takes as its starting point how art can reconcile the crisis and further reflects on the emasculation of perception by technology and the internet, and how the loss of capital and technology in the present affects perception. The project is centred on the idea of how art might negotiate art and crisis through publications and scenario-based shows.
‘the future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.’
——Virginia Woolf
Navigating in the dark
Xun's creative orientation is constantly concerned with negotiating with darkness, a process the artist separates into two actions: negotiation and navigation. The works about navigation, which are based on individual family stories, examine the importance of prior identities in navigating the present. Xun's forefathers were also part of the diaspora in South East Asia because he was born in a location with a rich diasporic culture. The most recent project, 'dragon bone,' focuses on subjects such as surname variants, languages, and alphabets, using first-hand family history testimonies and online sources as instruments to capture the geo-culture of South East Asia and China's southern coastline region. According to Xun, geo-culture comprises, in addition to the physical community, the online communities that arose from that geo.
Conciliating with the Darkness
Conciliating with the Darkness seeks to focus on the relationship between people and what will happen in the field of art in the future, with the related project 'digital salvage' that takes as its starting point how art can reconcile the crisis and further reflects on the emasculation of perception by technology and the internet, and how the loss of capital and technology in the present affects perception. The project is centred on the idea of how art might negotiate art and crisis through publications and scenario-based shows.
CV
Education
09/2021-12/2022
09/2014-
07/2018
Exhibition
11/2022
09/2014-
07/2018
Exhibition
11/2022
University of the arts London (UAL)
Chelsea Collage of Arts
MA, Fine Art
China Academy of Art (CAA)
Community Education Studio
BA, Fine Art Studies (Teacher Education)
Dwelling on the cloud, Ugly Duck, London, UK
Chelsea Collage of Arts
MA, Fine Art
China Academy of Art (CAA)
Community Education Studio
BA, Fine Art Studies (Teacher Education)
Dwelling on the cloud, Ugly Duck, London, UK
Awards
2018
Won
Silver Award of China Academy of Art Graduate Works and Fengmian Lin Creation
Award
2016-2017
Third-class
Scholarship for Academic Year 2016-2017, CAA
| Extracurricular Activities |
Online part-time job, Fir Gallery, Beijing, China
Intern, Research and Curation Department, CC foundation, Shanghai, China
Intern, Research and Curation Department, CC foundation, Shanghai, China
10/2019-
05/2020
05/2020
Art direction, Joss Art,
Shanghai, China
11/2017-
03/2018
03/2018
Participant, 90th Anniversary
of China Academy of Art Exhibition, CAA
11/2017-
01/2018
01/2018
Participant, Badi Arts Resident
Project, CAA
24/07/2017-
01/09/2018
01/09/2018
Intern, Research and Curation
Department, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
08/2016
Volunteer, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China