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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Natural View
Art book/ Real-time cctv images
A5 size
2019
Every image in this work is sourced from real-time CCTV surveillance footage. By composing the entire visual field from these live feeds, the piece immerses viewers in a space where observation becomes both medium and message.
This artistic gesture invites a deeper contemplation of the invisible systems that constantly watch, record, and archive our movements. In juxtaposing these impersonal, often overlooked images with the aesthetics of landscape, the work blurs the line between technological utility and poetic expression.
Rather than capturing nature directly, the piece filters it through the cold lens of surveillance, exposing how our encounters with the natural world are increasingly mediated by digital infrastructures. In doing so, it raises questions about authorship, visibility, and the changing role of the image in contemporary life.
The result is a quietly subversive meditation on control and beauty, where the act of watching becomes a form of creation, and surveillance—unknowingly—becomes a mediator of our time.