Xiao
Born and raised in Beijing, Lexy (also known as Xiao Liangzi) is an artist and researcher, currently based in Bergen. She works with alternative photographic processes, textile, and moving images, viewing photography as a form of performance and action that extends beyond the content of the image. She sees her artistic practice as a way to reach self-awareness and self-transcendence. She is interested in repetitive gestures, durational performance, materiality, exploring how time, perception, and repetition can produce a form of visibility and aesthetic experience.
Her practice is about experimentally performing the making processes- a repeated working process, investigating the ways to interpret pairs of paradoxical ideas around repetition, such as degradation and superposition, interruption and continuity, permanence and impermanence. She tends to interpret her investigations in a philosophical way, trying to build a connected, consistent and poetic theory system through her artistic practice.
Eduacation
2021- 2023
2020
2018- 2021
2009- 2013
MFA Fine Art, KMD, University of Bergen
Minor in Video Arts, exchange at Kyoto Seika University
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
BSc Computer Science, Beijing Technology and Business University
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Individual space in Essential Experiments Oslo Negativ 2023
Exhibited with Cyan Studio, Veterinærhøgskolen Adamstuen, Oslo, Norway
2022
2020
Durational Images
Untitled (Before departure)
Gallery Taxi, Håkonsgaten 9, Bergen, Norway
Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
Groups Exhibitions
2023
TRAMA in Bergen
Flex Point
TRAMA
Nudge it –
Kick it –
Prod it –
Push it –
Grand Spring Exhibition
Northing, Bergen, Norway
Entreé and Northing, Bergen, Norway
IEFC, Barcelona, Spain
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2022
Floccus
MFA1 Exhibition
KMD: TEXTILES
2021
Open Studios
Linger | 待
Impermanent Shadows (Lumen mural)
2020
Making Something from Nothing/ Making Nothing from Something
Don't Panic
2019
New Camberwell Art
Wool Week Stroud, UK
Bergen Kjøtt, Norway
Galleri Salhus Tekstilindustrimuseet, Norway
Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
11, Truman Brewery, London, UK
YouTube Livestream Online Show
London, UK
Online Performance, Zoom Virtual Room (ID: 249 909 0526),
Kyoto, Japan
Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
Residency
2023
Internaonal Experimentation Residence IEFC-EXP
Barcelona, Spain
2022
Gallery Taxi Summer Residency
Bergen, Norway
Awards
2022
Signature Art Prize Finalist
Bankside Hotel, London, UK