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MINGSHI Lin
b. Shenzhen, CHN
She/her/it

About

Mingshi Lin creates illustration, independent film, oil painting, music, and experimental sound that deliver evocative spiritual imagery with a poetic temperament.

She pursues an aesthetic that re-portrays and deconstructs consciousness and matter, nature and humanity, and cyborgs and knowledge, in order to inspire ‘something in between’ and liberate the third overtone from the conventional narratives.

Her works seek to explore the ‘resonation’ of the world — the ‘Aeolian’ derived from perceptions. Her brushstrokes, montage, and voice mean to create a new immersive environment — an ambience — a metaphysical space in which the mind wanders freely and ‘body’ drifts randomly while dissolving itself out of the borders. “Imagination is a sensory movement; the canvas is the habitat where my mind should go and rest,” she has noted. “Arts only live well in the uncanny collision between dreamy vision and real tactility. I just let my hand move, selling peerless imagination, not products.”


Education

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
MPhil. Latin American Studies. 2024

University College London, London, UK
MA. Film Studies. 2022

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA. Film. 2020

Exhibition

2023
FORBES Top 100 Young Artists of China, Shenzhen, CHN

2023
ART COMPOSITION--European Contemporary Art Exhibition, by Bravo Arts, Shenzhen, CHN

2021
Dante: The White Shores, Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN

2018
2020
Quartz (2019), Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN


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MINGSHI LIN b. Shenzhen, CHN
She/her/it


About

Mingshi Lin creates illustration, independent film, oil painting, and experimental sound that deliver beautifully abstract imageries and emotional, poetic temperament.

She pursues an aesthetic that re-portray and deconstruct consciousness and matter, nature and human being, and cyborg and knowledge, in order to inspire ‘something in between,’ to release the third overtone from the conventional narratives.

Her works aim to explore the ‘resonation’ of the world — the ‘Aeolian’ from perceptions. Her brushstrokes, montage, and voice mean to create a new environment — an ambience — a metaphysical space where mind goes freely and ‘body’ drifts randomly while dissolving itself out of the borders. “Creation is a sensory movement, the canvas is the habitat where my mind should go and rest,” she has noted. “Arts only live well in the uncanny collision between dreamy vision and real tactility; I just let my hand moves, selling peerless imagination, not products.”

Education

University College London, London, UK
MA. Film Studies. 2022

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA. Film. 2020

Exhibition

2021
Dante: The White Shores, Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN

2018
2020
Quartz (2019), Nest Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, CHN


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64 HEXAGRAM——7: 地水師 (shī)

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35” x 35”
oil on canvas
Shenzhen, China
2023


This work intends to create with the I Ching theories to see how they function at thinking multi-species discourse, bonding epistemological divergence, and the new ontologies beyond the human.

Furthermore, subsequent works of the series will integrate ancient oriental philosophy into the up-to-date criticism, exploring some elements from the indigenous cosmologies from another continent -- Latin America, in their conceptualization of the relationship between humans and nature.

This cross-cultural integration nourishes approaches and perspectives from both the east and west, as well as indigenous thought, to critically examine environmental histories while confronting today’s ecological challenges.