Lexie Ling
Collection
SCALE OF THE 7
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Walking along Line
I take a walk along the 7-line, known as the immigration line.
My camera and my pencil are my knife to dissect the "space".
My camera and my pencil are my knife to dissect the "space".
During the walk, some mismatches underlying the images attract me: dining tables and chairs locked by the fence, small “lofts” constructed on the balconies, and disposable forks collected neatly in plastic containers on the sidewalk,etc.
In the limited and high-cost living space, these residents use their wisdom to challenge the spatial inequality ranging from lack of resources to inaccessibility of infrastructure. Whether they adapt or resist to their environment, it is a possibility of asserting autonomy.
Dissecting through Space
The systematic problem of power structure embedded in the living space itself was unfolded through individual's experience. By dissecting the power space around each individual I observed, I unfolded how the material, movement, and gestures influence and are influenced in this relationship.
As further walking, my works examine how power structures are generated, embedded, and reproduced in the physical construction of our surroundings, and the way inhabitants respond to this complex assemblage of affiliations. In the conceptual, spatial, and phenomenological ways, I bridge physical materiality and visual narrative together to explore the scale of the "7-line".
Reproducing via Action
Through working in the perspective of universalism, I create actions that place myself in experiencing the city networks.
I intend to recreate the experience to my audience in a wearable medium that speaks to the same situation - being expanded, loaded, hinged, stacked, or torqued.
The one wearing the object will be invited into a non-negotiable act, a general restriction of movement - urgently, uncomfortably, awkwardly.
However, this embarrassment is not obedience, on the contrary, it means the possibility of instinctive resistance. This act is not a simple kinetic movement, it is a spontaneous interaction with the object, a struggle with the environment.
However, this embarrassment is not obedience, on the contrary, it means the possibility of instinctive resistance. This act is not a simple kinetic movement, it is a spontaneous interaction with the object, a struggle with the environment.
Unfolding by Object
My works intend to do 3 things: first, be visually pleasing, and attractive. Second, be uncomfortable enough for one to want to take it off, even if the discomfort is hardly noticeable at first. Third, be difficult to take off/get rid of. Because it is an inherent, long-standing, environmental discomfort from which escape is elusive.
It is a polite offense.
It is a polite offense.
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Bio
Jingyi (Lexie) Ling uses installations and performance to explore the intersection between the political and the poetic. Thinking through the space connection between the system and the individual in contemporary life, Lexie creates narratives that examine the questions of bodies of knowledge, power structure, and the properties of making and unmaking.
Email:
jingyiling330@gmail.com