Xiaoran Feng (b.1998, Dalian) received her BFA in Visual Communication Design from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Studying an MA in Contemporary Art Practice - Moving Image at the Royal College of Art in London.
Xiaoran Feng
The exploration of our surroundings is the core of Xiaoran Feng‘s practice, working with moving images, photography, and sound. She explores the relationship between pseudo-environment and the relative reality through sounds and images. Her practice has been to create various compositional worlds by observing and sounds collecting. Many of the messages that exist around us in sound are inconspicuous, but are also part of the world. Through recombining, they inspire us to reconnect with the world as we perceive it.
THEM I –
This film tells the story of a pair of badminton shoes works in an enclosed pitch, but fantasizes about the life it aspires to beyond its reach. It aims to criticize the exploitation of labor and the neglect of labor values under capitalism.
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1920 × 1080, 00:04:05
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Photography, 2659 × 3989
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Photography, 3869 × 2579
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Photography, 2733 × 4100
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Photography, 2487 × 3316
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Photography, 2744 × 4116
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These photographs are of the shoes of people working in different occupations, defined as work shoes. The close-ups magnify the signs of overuse and neglect of the shoes. The aim is to cry out against the inequalities of labour and to express the neglect within it.
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Multiple
Photography, 2632 × 1478
Photography, 2632 × 1480
Photography, 888 × 1518
Photography, 2638 × 1486
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This group of photographs is a brief description of a pair of shoes desire to have joy and life, defined as a barista's working shoe with a surface covered in coffee powder.