Xianyi Zhang, a London-based visual artist and filmmaker, explores urban challenges, alienation, and self-discovery. With roots in Shanghai, her unique perspective emerged from an early love for writing. Focusing on underrepresented groups from a female standpoint, Xianyi delves into identity, societal dynamics, and the human condition. Her work embodies rebellion from silence in a restrained style, expressing a spirit of defiance.
In her piece "Obsession," she portrays a woman's journey to metamorphose into seawater—a symbolic quest for intimate connection and an unattainable fixation. Witness her transformative odyssey, dissolving boundaries to meld with the purity, fluidity, and depth of the ocean's essence.
