Zey
Xiong
Bodies, traces, images, and the surfaces between them.
Projects
Archive / Field Notes
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Studies, fragments, public observations, process images and unfinished research. Not every note needs to become a finished work.
Collaborations
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Biography
Zey Xiong is a London-based visual artist whose practice moves between photography and material processes, and is expanding into moving image. Her work often begins with an interest in the body, dress and the ways people inhabit and interact with different spaces.
With a background in fashion design, Xiong is particularly interested in clothing as a carrier of information and in how the dressed body can be constructed, perceived and transformed through its surroundings. Her practice remains open across media, moving between image-making, observation and material experimentation.
Artist Statement
I am interested in the body, and in the many ways it becomes visible.
Clothing is one of the places I often begin. I am drawn to the information carried by what we wear — how dress can construct an image, alter the way a body is read, or change its relationship to the people and spaces around it.
Much of my photographic work follows dressed bodies moving through different environments: streets, domestic or functional spaces, architecture and social situations. I am interested in what happens when a body enters a space, how it occupies it, and how visibility, distance, intimacy or isolation can emerge from that encounter.
My practice is not tied to a single medium or fixed subject. Photography and material processes are central to my current practice, alongside ongoing experiments with moving image. More recently, I have also become interested in physical traces: what bodies leave on objects and surfaces, and what objects may leave on bodies in return.
I see the work as an ongoing process of looking rather than an attempt to arrive at a single definition.