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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What if the reality you perceive as virtual belongs to someone else?

What if your perception of reality is shaped by what you consider virtual?

Through an interactive digital display, Kexin switches the roles of subject and object, offering a third perspective on our reality shaped by vast data surveillance. She merges personal experiences and fiction in a multimedia short film. 

The story features a protagonist who loses her reflection in real life and projects her identity onto an online persona. This virtual character gradually becomes the protagonist's new reality. Investigating from techno-philosophical and psychoanalytic angles, the narrative explores the power structures' use of self-projection through big data and social media manipulation. 

Kexin guides viewers to rethink the boundaries between self and projection, reality and virtuality, prompting a reflection on these mirrored perspectives.