Mei Mei

Statement

As a cross-disciplinary artist, I see myself as a catalyst of new situations, exploring the pre-existing social and natural contexts that surround us and transcribing them through a feminist, non-patriarchal lens via recreation and variations.

My art delves into the intricacies of media theory explores the ways in which memory is mediated and molded by the material culture, as well as the agencies of the female identity. I examine the affections inspired by kitsch in television media and cyber-pop culture, the infinite loops of commodity fetishism, and the hypnotic power of technical images as a means of communication. In my practice-led research projects, I strive to merge the opposing forces of order and chaos, the expected and the unconventional.

GlogauAIR Project

My very recent practice is to learn the situation of “hanging”.

The concept of “hanging” evoke thoughts of gravity, hesitation, suicide, precariousness, fragility, the uprooted, and the inevitable. Hanging objects are a metaphor for an unstable vertical hierarchy, in contrast to those that grow from the ground, which seem more rooted, reliable, and connected to a source. Hanging, on the other hand, begins in the air, temporary and ephemeral, like a mirage.

This research project investigates the various physical forms of hanging, such as hanging, dangling, draping, and suspension, through the study of objects and materials like willow trees, chandeliers, fishing lures, and plumb bob levels, etc. I aim to examine the “hanging situation” as a potential state of feminist knowledge and post-humanistic contemplation.

Writing, New media, Photography, and Video

CV Summary

Meimei(Xinyi Mei)(b.1997) received her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design in 2021, and BE at Design and Innovation College under Tongji University in 2019. Her works have been recently exhibited in Shanghai, London, New York, and Taipei. Currently she also works as an adjunct professor at Tongji University.

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