Jingyi Sun | 孙婧怡

My practice is focused on making physical objects that act as a philosophical and emotional response to contemporary life. I am interested in the relationship between the personal and the collective, often integrating my own experiences to speak on wider themes. As a Beijing-born-and-raised, Shanghai-(higher)-educated and now London-based designer, topics such as language and cities as carriers and spaces of identity are central to my work. I see my work as an act of "making a reference" to an item in collective knowledge, often including semi-cryptic information that relies on the audience's own knowledge and library to make a connection.

Elsewhere 异乡 is an installation exploring the tug-and-pull relationship diasporic individuals have with their homeland (a "there") and place of residence (a "here") through a study of embroidered languages and the desk as a liminal space existing in between the two places. The English title of the project comes from my answer to the 2021 UK census question "What is your country of birth?" Yet depending on how you look at it, the word elsewhere can be used to refer to either "here" or "there", something that the Chinese title of the project (Other's Land) alludes to.

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