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Xu Zihan<\/h1>\n

BA Art and Design<\/h3>\n

My practice explores repetition, attachment, and emotional maintenance within intimate relationships through installation and moving image. Through expanding, entangled material structures and grainy, defocused imagery, I attempt to construct a relational ecology gradually shaped by dependency, accumulation, and psychological pressure. The work examines how continuous interaction reshapes bodily perception, blurs interpersonal boundaries, and translates emotional experience into spatial states of perception.<\/p>\n

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This installation constructs an accumulative relational structure through suspension, entanglement, and translucent materials. Intersecting red threads, floating organic forms, and shadows cast across the walls create a spatial condition that continuously expands while remaining in a state of imbalance, suggesting attachment, tension, and psychological pressure within intimate relationships. Through infiltration, rupture, and interconnection in space, the structure remains unresolved and continuously shifting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The black and red expanding structures resemble the residue of a continuously proliferating and spreading relationship. Distorted and accumulated through gravity and tension, the materials gradually form biomorphic states, evoking a process of entanglement, intrusion, and loss of control within intimate relationships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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