XINYU IRIS XU
received an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, a graduate diploma in Fine Art from Royal College of Art and a BA in fashion design from China Academy of Art.
Xinyu is an experimental filmmaker, mixed-media artist, and occasional screening organizer. They see the image as a phantom limb—one that inhabits multiple times and spaces, forming a "second skin" that blurs the boundaries between presence and absence. Rooted in the poetics of memory, spectrality, and the fragmented nature of perception, their work explores the interweaving of non-linear narratives, feminist world-making, queer spatialities, diasporic displacement, and haunted archives.
Drawing from found footage, material decay, and embodied storytelling, Xinyu’s practice engages with the liminality of images, investigating how cinema can function as a site of both remembrance and reinvention. Their work has been showcased at the London Short Film Festival (ICA, London), Goldsmiths CCA (London), Studio dB (Berlin), The Living Gallery (New York), The Art Pavilion (London), and Three Shadows Gallery (Beijing), among others.