陈萧伊 Chen Xiaoyi

Chen Xiaoyi was born in Sichuan, China in 1992. She received an MA Photography from London College of Communication in 2014, currently lives and works in Chengdu. Chen Xiaoyi has exhibited internationally; she was awarded the Three Shadows Photography Award in 2015, China’s most prestigious photography prize, and named one of Asia’s 30 Artist under 30 by Forbes magazine 2017.

Her work based on photography but not confined to specific media, focusing on the subtle perceptions of human beings by producing images. And constantly challenge the established logic, perception and imagination to explore the existence itself. In the projects that have been progressing in recent years, she has focused on the Western China as a resource area in history, focusing on the mines and mining relics in the Hengduan Mountains region as cuts, and continuously salvaging those lost time, the mystery of nature and the land. From the mining industry in the past to the mountain habitat today, she worked on the relationship between the temporal and spatial stacking of mountains and the land, and tried to scan the western mountains in China through the broader narrative.

Her recent solo exhibitions include “The Epoch of Rippling Hengduan Mountains” (A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, 2022), “Streit” (Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, China, 2020), “The stranger:…and while I blossomed all alone, the world slumbered” (Theatre Crochetan, Switzerland, 2018 / Three Shadows Photography Art Centre，2018), “One Giant Leap” (Matèria Gallery, Roma, 2017”, “Never！”( A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, 2017), “Art Project- London Art Fair” ( Matèria Gallery, London, 2017), “The Inadequacy of Lauguage” (Matèria Gallery, Roma, 2016); and recent works have been exhibited at the Vevey Image (Switzerland), LA NUU photo festival (Spain), La Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (France), Calling/re-Calling-Culture city of east Asia (Japan), Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (China), Lianzhou Foto (China), Paris Photo (France), Liste Art Fair (Switzerland), London Art Fair (UK), Museum Folkwang (Germany), Benaki Museum (Greece), Guangdong Times Museum (China), OCAT Shenzhen (China), Power Station of Art (China), Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing), A4 Art Museum (China) etc.