I positions myself as zazen practitioner in the west, a contemplator on time and a dilettante in art, experimenting the aimlessly long-term engagement with materials whilst embracing the uncertainty that comes with daily experiments in forms of installation, performance, video and drawing.
Influenced by a Chinese Buddhist family I have developed a strong tendency to decentralise and suspend the “self”, my own subjectivity and expression through minimising my artist’s authority in the art-making.
My practice honours “indwelling retreat" within the mundanity of life, which is the trajectory I have been working on in a broader context of everyday resilience, and it is the agency that works for me in creating an alternative but internal space that the mind could return to and have rest. In recent years, I have discovered numerous possibilities of having access to indwelling retreat through “meditation in action” which is at the intersection of rituals of grieving, deep listening, indigenous healing exercises and its function as to relieve and to comfort.
After receiving my bachelor degree in Art Photography in Beijing Film Academy, my interest switched from still image to contemporary art in a broader field, so I joined the fine art master program in Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Den Bosch in 2018, and now working as an artist in the Netherlands. In the past few years after graduation, I have had the opportunities of presenting my work at Tilde Amsterdam, …ism Project Space, Prospects 2021, Witte Rook, RuimteCAESUUR, Ecker Galerij, and more. Additionally, I was honoured to be invited to share my research through workshops at institutions such as JvE Academy, the design apartment of Rietveld Academy, and La Casa Encendida in Madrid. I am grateful for these experiences that have allowed me to grow and contribute to the art community.
I am currently based in Rotterdam after finished her photography education at Beijing Film Academy(2016, CN) and Master of Fine Arts at Master Institute of Visual Cultures(2020, NL). In addition to her own practice, she also works as an artist duo The Amazing Oriental together with Alireza Abbasy. I am founder of Platform LivingRoom, and a curator of Sarmad Platform in Rotterdam.
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