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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Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear
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Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear is an art video developed from Kexin’s fictive I-novel to prompt reflection on simulation hypothesis and selfhood in the post-truth era of the virtual world. Kexin realizes that virtual reality extends beyond mere visual perception, but also intersects with psychosocial and self-projection mechanism. In the realm of social psychology, the utilization of self-projection has the potential to destroy our relationship in real life.

Adapted from the novel, Kexin harnessed its structural essence to craft a 20-minute desktop film, which serves as a reflective medium mirroring the narrative arc of her novel. This film is not merely a component of the novel, but also a tangible manifestation of the imaginative realm within which the novel is contextualized. Through this multimedia convergence, a symbiotic narrative space emerges, enhancing the depth and breath of the storytelling experience.

The film allows Kexin to comment on gaze relations in locating the so-called truth, it is this distance that makes “truth” easier to produce and control.