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...