RUYUN  XIAO


Ruyun Xiao is an artist, writer, researcher, exhibition designer, and illustrator from China. She explores the concept of bodily knowledge through performative form. Her imaginative process embodies herself in first-person memories, stories, and myths. She produces frameworks, and instruments to choreograph experiences of the unknown. Using writing as the foundation, she engages with performance, design, publication, and sound to communicate sensorium ways of knowing and unknowing.

Xiao is currently based in London, United Kingdom. She recently graduated from the Critical Curatorial Cybernetics research master program at Haute école d’art et de design(HEAD), Geneva, Switzerland. She worked as a 2D designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates in New York City for six years. She received an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in 2018, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Arts in 2016, and a BA in Advertising from the Beijing University of Technology in 2015.


performances, exhibitions

Design
Writing, Publishing




Void, artgenève


2024
Video and sound


Journey of an absent body
Sound from the tunnel that you can never reach
Void is a collection of lost feelings
Sensations of the void will manifest itself within...


Void, was shown in the group exhibition Must Become The Pitiless Sensors of Ourselves, with JPP, Yul Tomatala, Remy Ugarte Vallejos, curated by Varun Kumar.

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