Jinjin Xu

Jinjin Xu

Lives and works in Shanghai & London

2020-2023, MA Painting, Royal College of Art

2016-2020, BA Public Art, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, China

For me, home has never been a place that can be summed up in geographical coordinates; it is a sense of atmosphere enveloped by fixed meanings in culture.

My work revolves around the narrative of personal backgrounds and the identity of the migrant population in one group, and I am curious about how group life and experiences act on individual values and social identity. I seek to use the social patterns of geographically mobile families, as well as observations of China's internally mobile population, as an entry point to explore and reflect on the resulting questions about relationships of belonging, ontology, alienation, surveillance, objects, etc.