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Xi Lai

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Xi Lai cecilialai0110.wixsite.com/xilai Cecilialai0110@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/svaha_fanxi/
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
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Life is open for experience, adjusting your mentality and increasing wisdom. I hope that this work can be used as a tool in my hands to heal my own soul and the souls of others. Plaster, silicone or bandages are used in installations to express people’s psychological state, and self-exploration in works of art by means of meditation.

Silicone and plaster of Paris are solidified after flowing, like a freeze frame of time, allowing people to remember and reflect on that moment forever. Bandages are soft, elastic and entangled, creating an environment that nurtures new life, and has an intuitive healing effect on the body, borrowing its function as a metaphor for spiritual healing. At the same time, my work is influenced by Rudolf Steiner, Wittgenstein, transpersonal psychology, integrated psychological healing, ecological healing, traditional Chinese culture and other theories. 

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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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