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
镜中人

Genre: I-Novel
English & Chinese
Type:Softcover page:98 
Dimensions: 128mm * 182 mm 
Author& Graphic Design : Kexin Hong



The novel describes the protagonist is suddenly unable to perceive her own reflection in real life and begins instead to project her missing sense of self onto an online character. This virtual other gradually becomes the fictional reality through which the protagonist confirms her identity. In the end, she disappears without a trace, leaving uncertainty as to whether she ever existed at all. 


"Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.”

This particular phrase is frequently displayed on rear-view mirrors of vehicles as a cautionary reminder to drivers regarding the disparity between perceived distance and actual distance of objects In this novel, Kexin utilizes its optical phenomenon as a metaphor to portray digital platforms in the post-truth era as convex mirrors and mediators that reflect various aspects of reality onto a nonfiction dimension, which is not the opposite of real-life but rather the source of its projection. It manifests the property of in-betweenness that wanders among our constructions of the imagination and reality