BIO




XINYU XUXX 许馨予
they/she





Xinyu XuXX is an artist born in Huangshan and based in London. 

Raised in the mountain mist, now working with ‘mist’ as both a material trace and a method, they move between artists’ film, moving image, installation and writing, exploring borderless identities, non-linear memory, and desires that wander between body and space.

Xinyu is a recipient of Round 19 DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice) funding from Arts Council England. Their work has been shown at the London Short Film Festival, Queer East Festival, Conditions Studio, Goldsmiths CCA residency space (London), Studio dB (Berlin), The Living Gallery (New York), The Art Pavilion (London), and Three Shadows Gallery (Beijing), among others. 

Xinyu is the half of 水哨 Shuǐ Shào, co-organised with artist Yuqing Lin in 2023, an artist-led project exploring queer and diasporic moving image and artist film through community screenings and collaborative creative activities. 水哨 Shuǐ Shào is the guest screening curator for Queer East festival in 2024 & 2025. 

Xinyu also plays as XX NAILS, a creative nail art project emerging from one of typical immigrant labour and service works, exploring the therapeutic, artistic, and expressive potential of everyday care practices, embodied intimacy. 


xinyuxuiris@gmail.com
@xinyuiris
nails: @kiss_kiss_nails_














                   

ARTIST CV

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Currently working on:

artist book production - MIST MONOLOGUE 

artist film promotion - VERTICAL DIALOGUES

drafting a story about a plum blossom tree















WORKS (2020-present)   click pic for details






VERTICAL DIALOGUES  

202517’26’’

Artists’ short film
Supported by Arts Council England





MIST MONOLOGUE

2025-2026
Artist book in progress

Supported by Arts Council England

Developed in parallel with the short film VERTICAL DIALOGUES






THE ROOM IT LEAKS

2023
11’09’’

Artists’film and moving image installation

Part of Goldsmiths MFA FINE ART degree show 2023

Selected by London Short Film festival and Queer East Fesitval 2024





STILLS

2023

Digital print on velvet and mesh





CORAL WEB

2022

Artists’ moving image installation 






THINGS I’VE DONE UNDER THE DUVET
2021-2022

A series of B&W photography, UV printings
& writing






SWAMP ON MY BALCONY

2021-2022

A series of moving image works experiment on eroticism during my early student year.

“ Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism—to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity. Poetry is eternity; the sun matched with the sea. ”

- Eroticism. Georges Bataille,1957




THE DISAPPEARING RIVER

2020
video installation

                                 a digital river 


INTO CRACKS
2020
3’12’’

video with sound / installation 
Negative Capability : I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

—The first mention of negative capability in a letter to brothers George Keats and Thomas Keats on December 8, 1817


Inspired by the unconscious rambling experience of myself at night in Shanghai,2020. A human activity filled with uncertainties, darkness, mysteries, and doubts that turns introspection into outdoor activity, in which the mind, while the body operates only daily takes a grand adventure to put aside all knowledge that it knew. Such activity is designed to free one from the bonds and constraints of a human's identity. By gradually abandoning the likes and dislikes and the individuality, the one is degenerating into "nothing" and is slowly accepting "everything," reaching the balance of the non-subject object relationship between the environment and people. I found that the water in the environment has the same properties as the person in the drifting. I use water to turn the actions of one person into countless, into a group of people walking.






CATCHING THE MOON
2020
1’00’’

Video installation