At the end of May this year, my work was selected by Pei, a young curator from the Royal College of Art, and invited to participate in an exhibition she was curating. The exhibition ran for five days and featured my oil painting Little emotion from unit 2. It started when the curator swiped my work on social media and thought my subject matter was a good fit for the exhibition, she then came to visit me in my studio and we had a long chat in my studio in Camberwell and confirmed the final pieces to be shown. It was a great professional experience as I was exposed to how a curator operates during the planning of an exhibition, the selection of works, and throughout the duration of the exhibition.

The private viewing on opening day was a great event, busy and full of friends and other artists who came out to support me, it was a really fun and enjoyable experience to make connections and discuss context, interests and content. Being in this particular exhibition gave me the opportunity to see how my work is viewed and positioned by others. As you enter the room, my paintings are located next to the preface, to the left of the entrance door, which is a very striking position as people will start their tour from it as they enter. It blends in well with the installation and the sculpture on the floor, like something from a worldview.

Preamble:

Suddenly an eruption becomes manifest, like a surge for the outside. "Surge " a forceful upward or forward movement, there is a sudden thrust or sustained microwave, resulting in mutation/transformation. Ritual, absolute stillness, relative ecstasy, or the presence of complete self-will, the ritual splicing of mediums and connecting thoughts bordering on the physical, completing the solitary meditation on the transcendental sensory experience, all inquiring into the nature of the object and the meaning of existence, the contemplation and exploration of existence, time and space. Specially thank the amiable Jonathan for writing this foreword and making it all so wonderful.

​Official report:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C8h1IlsojFZ/?igsh=MXgxdGNkOWZrMjNrcw==

"Xinyu's artistic creations revolve around the theme of invisible trauma during personal growth, constructing prismatic, complex and riddle-like narrative scenes by reorganising the remnants of memory from а specific time and place. Xinyu's pictorial language reflects feminist and ecological influences, articulating the potential network of relationships between humans and natural creatures through а female perspective. ' ' Little Emotions is one of her series in which symbols and imagery flow, demonstrating the fragility and complexity of life force. The paintings are viewed as а montage of fragile moments, glowing life forms, tilted raindrops presenting the ambiguity and non-linear character of memory, and the subtle beauty and complexity of the symbolism for her give the works а lasting vitality."