Kexin Hong



Kexin Hong was born in China, lives and works in the Netherlands, as a multidisciplinary artist, she employs a variety of media including, video, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to explore political issues on digital platform and sociology.

Kexin Hong is fascinated by the boundaries between reality and virtuality, as well as the real and the imaginary; Her research delves into the impact of post-colonial trauma on the self- projection mechanisms among individuals in the post-truth era. It investigates how these self- projection mechanisms are manipulated by politically motivated power structures in the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, thereby constructing a multitude of projective realities. Kexin perceives these virtual realities as an ouroboros, perpetually self-referential, created based on our subjective emotions and deeply intertwined with collective social and cultural histories.
In other words, she intends to investigate how political images achieve a fictional “authenticity” while affirming themselves in reverse. 


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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.