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Between Tides
Home. Revolution
Fleeing to Where No One Is
Brand New World
Photograph 60 × 90 cm
Single-channel video 2 min 30 sec
Oil on canvas 90 × 120 × 2 cm
Single or dual-channel video and sound 2 min 20 sec
2022
2025
2025
2024
Yanzi Zou
Xiaoqi Yang
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Xingyi Qu
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Yanzi Zou is a multidisciplinary artist based between the UK and China. Zou works across moving image, performance, and installation. Zou’s practice engages with the entanglement of surveillance, digital manipulation, and societies of control, while tracing how these forces shape human behaviour. Fascinated by the recurring presence of the ‘invisible’ in daily life, Zou incorporates symbolic strategies and dark humour into mediated environments that encourage open-ended interpretation and reflection on systems of power. Brand New World explores the presence of control in contemporary society through movement, choreography and spatial rhythm. Created with dancer Shiyi Wei, the work unfolds across two screens, alternating between today and tomorrow. Viewers turn their heads to follow the shifting images, becoming participants in an unconscious choreography. The piece reflects on how power structures fade from view yet resurface through performance, bodily autonomy and institutional frameworks.
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Xiaoqi Yang is a Chinese queer artist and filmmaker based in London. Working with moving image, performance, and sound, Yang’s practice examines tensions between gender, family, and cultural discipline in contemporary East Asian contexts. Drawing on personal archives and autobiographical fragments, the work navigates intergenerational silence, rituals, and the politics of care. Born in Nanjing, Yang situates queer identity within Confucian ethics and domestic life. Home. Revolution reflects on familial turbulence through a queer lens. Filmed in Nanjing, it captures intergenerational tension, rituals and resistance within domestic space. A father’s prayer before Mao’s portrait, a mother’s mirrored presence and an unseen gaze suggest a perceptual revolution within heteronormative structures. This video resists resolution and presents queerness not as identity, but as rupture within intimacy and inherited history.
Xingyi Qu is a London-based artist working across painting, sculpture and installation. Drawing from experiences in diverse cultural contexts, Qu explores the relationship between colour, space and emotion. Her work moves between intimate figurative painting and site-responsive installation, capturing the quiet poetics of daily life. Reflecting on memory, perception and place, Qu invites viewers to engage with fleeting yet formative narratives that shape both inner and outer worlds. Fleeing to Where No One Is forms part of Qu’s oil-painting series Lone Star , which examines the psychological tensions of self-presentation in the digital age. Drawing on Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom (1941), the series explores how the pursuit of an idealised “fictional self” through social media generates alienation, anxiety, and internal conflict.
Xiao Guo
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Between Tides is a photographic series exploring the thresholds between self and environment. The body appears suspended in water, fragmented by reflection and scattered like puzzle pieces. These quiet, ambiguous moments evoke the instability of identity and memory, mirroring the shifting boundaries of contemporary life. Rooted in feminine consciousness and personal transformation, the work avoids definition in favour of feeling.
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