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Shuyi Xie

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
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BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
#MA Contemporary Arts China
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#Moving Image

I am a UK based MA Contemporary Arts China Student exploring the impact that social systems have on individuals. 

My work over the past year studying at BCU (Birmingham City University) has made a shift from objects and paintings based to multi-media approach including web-based projects, photography, video shooting and installations. In my work, I look at the collective struggle of humankind and the ways social systems function in individuals. I am interested in making something happen, telling stories, presenting hidden systems, or raising people’s awareness of social issues. I see art as a tool for building up dialogues and connecting people. 

My current art project The Strangers is about the life and dreams of Chinese working-class people in Birmingham. I have produced a photography set, a video, and a booklet to capture the mentality that participants have and visualize their struggles and reality in a surrealistic way. The juxtaposition of working hands, British natural sceneries and the music selected by participants is the demonstration of my practice: how the British social environment affects the mentality of the Chinese working-class people and how their real lives differ from their dreams. 

PHASED

The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]

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