Artist's statement

Baihui Lin is a multi-disciplinary artist, based in Beijing and London. She began studying traditional Chinese art as a child and later majored in Chinese language and literature. In September 2021, she began to continue her art studies at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London, and now she is a Master student. She has participated in and curated several exhibitions of young artists in London. Recently, she mainly focuses on the checks and balances of the relationship between individuals and society, especially the self-confrontation and external confrontation faced by female individuals and female artists in Asian society, Oriental literature, and Asian popular music systems, and discusses how the collective consciousness of society imperceptivity domesticates individual thoughts and behaviors from the perspective of specific gender and mainstream consciousness. It also reflects on how this sovereign perspective acts and reacts on the female self, as well as the disconnection between stereotyped female image and real female image. In recent years, she has focused on the struggle of individual female artists against the patriarchal system and the artistic ecological field dominated by male artists and considered the misleading stereotype of female artists brought about by mainstream social concepts.

Her early works range from colorful flexible fabrics to metal installations with light and video as materials. Now, she extends her works based on video art, making use of daily belongings around her to create poetic performance art and poetry with limited materials and space.

Her recent work references the master-servant dialectics and collective bullying of Lacan and female artist Judy Chicago. In the future, she will continue to delve into another branch of creation, the Buddhist Thought of the 2022 phase, focusing on the "phases" of entities in Buddhist texts, exploring the possibility of human self-knowledge and high-dimensional biological connections, and exploring the perception of self-spiritual forces outside the physical body and external thinking.