Kexin Hong




Kexin Hong (b. China) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Working across moving image, installation, and essay film, she delves into the psychosocial and political forces shaping our sense of reality.

Her work navigates the fragile relationship between collective trauma and memory, questioning how historical wounds reconstruct our self-perception and the very architecture of how memories are formed



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Imaginary Rescripting

Video essay / 24 mins

Funded by Amsterdam Fund voor de Kunst





 

Drawing on the concept of 'Imagery Rescripting' in psychotherapy, this essay film examines the pathology of collective memory in the digital age. By tracing the visual lineage from late Qing Dynasty pictorials to today's social media in China, the film exposes how historical trauma from WWII is not healed but 'rescripted' into a narrative of hatred. It questions how digital platforms exploit these deep-seated scars to manufacture a hallucinated reality of the 'Other.'

The work has been screened and exhibited internationally, with recent presentations including the Chinese Film Festival Hamburg (2026, Hamburg); ATM6: Transvaluation, Asia Triennial Manchester (2025, UK); bore, a group exhibition at Dutch Design Week (2025, Eindhoven); the Chinese Short Film Program at Droog (2025, Amsterdam); HIVE Film Festival (2025, Berlin); Imaginary Rescripting at LAB111 (2025, Amsterdam); the Gjon Mili International Video Art Festival (2025, New York); The Void Reenactment at ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics (2025, Berlin); and Imaginary Rescripting × Living Room Session at Felix Meritis (2025, Amsterdam).