Interviews
Interview in WeChat
Born in Taizhou, Zhejiang in August 1998, she graduated from the Oil Painting
Department of Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Conservatory of Music. And
now she is a 2020 graduate student majoring in fine arts at Wenzhou University.
"In the process of moving forward, be alert to extreme rationality, never fall into
superficial feelings, and always remain faithful to self". Xu Hanyin's artistic creation is
like her motto, are often between extreme thinking and emotional feelings. Her creation
involves painting, photography and performance art. This series of artistic practice is
based on the context of academic art. But like most young artists under the academy
system, her artistic trajectory rejects conventions and is full of unknowns, and always
persist in the search for self. Xu Hanyin's works are usually grotesque and novel, but
they can strongly convey people's primitive emotions. This interview focuses on Xu
Hanyin's persistence and transformation of artistic practice in the context of the new
academy.
The Artists Talk Back
The students in Professor Travis Jeppesen’s Curatorial Writing and Thinking class spent the past semester learning to write about contemporary art. For an assignment towards the end of the semester, we decided to speak to some artists in an interview project...