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GROUP EXHIBITIONS 群展
2025
Drifting Selves, Downstairs at The Department Store - Brixton, London, 22 - 23 Nov, 2025.
Surrealism, Open Gallery, Halifax, 7 - 27 Nov, 2025.
31st Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, Circular ArtSpace MetArtSpace, 16 Oct - 6 Nov, 2025.
ARTIST BIO
艺术家简介
Kelly (Zixuan) Qi is a digital mixed-media collage artist born in Beijing, China (1990). She graduated in Fashion Design and Patternmaking from the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris in 2017 and received a Master's in Fashion Management from the University for the Creative Arts in the UK in 2021. Her artistic practice blends autobiographical collage, surrealism, and psychological exploration. Her work interweaves personal memories and emotions with astrological metaphors to explore the transformation of individual growth and inner conflicts.
Her work uses 'my childhood self' as the narrative protagonist, exploring how childhood experiences influence personal emotional and psychological growth. Through this autobiographical collage, she combines her memories with astrological constellations and horoscope dilemmas, creating an artistic space filled with metaphors and emotional layers. Her themes focus on psychological healing, female development, individual and collective identity, and the interaction between memory and self.
Her work uses digital mixed media collage as the main method, combining personal childhood photos, public domain images, and digitally painted texture elements (such as linen, felt, and embroidery stitches) to create a handmade collage atmosphere, presenting a unique surrealist style. Through these media, she conveys the complexity of emotions and employs soothing colors to create a healing atmosphere. Each work invites viewers into a world that is both real and fantastical, guiding them toward emotional resonance and a sense of healing.
She is currently working on a series titled 'Stardust Journey,' which uses the twelve zodiac signs as metaphors and inspiration to explore the multiple possibilities of self-healing. Next, she plans to launch a new series inspired by difficult aspects of the Sun and Moon in astrology. Using a three-act structure, she will present the process from conflict, transformation, to healing, further deepening her artistic exploration of self-awareness and emotional healing.
祁子轩是一位出生于中国北京的数字混合媒介拼贴艺术家（1990年）。她在2017年毕业于巴黎时装工会学院的服装设计与制版专业，并在2021年获得英国创意艺术大学的时尚管理硕士学位。她的艺术创作融合了自传式拼贴、超现实主义风格以及心理疗愈探索。作品通过将个人记忆、情感与占星学的隐喻相结合，探讨个体成长和内在冲突的转化。
她的作品以“小时候的我”作为叙述主角，探索童年经历如何影响个人情感与心理成长。通过这一自传式拼贴的方式，她将自己的记忆与占星学中的星座、星盘困境相结合，创造出一个充满隐喻与情感层次的艺术空间。她的创作主题集中于心理疗愈、女性成长、个体与群体的身份认同，以及记忆与自我之间的互动。
她的作品以数字混合媒介拼贴作为主要方法，结合了个人童年照片、公共领域影像与数字绘制（如亚麻布、毛毡与刺绣线迹等）质感元素营造手工拼贴的氛围，呈现出一种独特的超现实主义风格。她通过这些媒介传达情感的复杂性，并用治愈的色彩营造出疗愈的氛围。每一件作品都邀请观众走进一个既真实又幻想的世界，引导她们获得情绪上的共鸣与疗愈感。
目前，她正在创作名为《星尘之旅》的系列，作品以十二星座为隐喻为灵感，探索自我疗愈的多重可能性。接下来，她计划开展一个新的创作系列，灵感来源于占星学中的日月相关困难相位，采用三幕式结构呈现从冲突、转化到疗愈的过程，进一步深化她对自我认知与情感疗愈的艺术探索。
ARTIST STATEMENT
艺术家个人陈述
My interest in astrology began in childhood and deepened as I grew up. Difficult aspects in my horoscope, such as Sun-Saturn squares and Moon-Venus squares, profoundly shaped my psychological experience. I often fell into a cycle of low self-esteem, excessive focus on others' opinions, self-criticism, and procrastination. I even learned to constantly give and please others in exchange for their approval. These long-term internal struggles prompted me to question how I could coexist with these energies. I then combined astrology with art, using it as a path to self-understanding and healing.
In my work, the dilemmas of constellations and astrological charts are transformed into narrative frameworks. I choose ‘my childhood self’ as the narrative protagonist, narrating my journey of self-discovery through autobiographical collage. Using a digital mixed-media collage technique, I combine childhood photographs, public domain footage, and digital drawings, incorporating fabric and embroidery stitches. This creates a work that possesses the tension of digital surrealism while retaining the warmth of handmade collage.
I don't want my collages, exploring healing, to become overly burdensome. While the work often addresses negative energy and inner conflict, I try to respond with bright, healing colors, imbuing the images with the power to alleviate anxiety. I hope viewers will see reflections of themselves in the work, finding resonance between conflict and healing, and ultimately gaining a gentle sense of self-acceptance.
我对占星学的兴趣始于童年，并在成长过程中逐渐加深。星盘中的一些困难相位，例如日土刑与月金刑，深刻地塑造了我的心理体验——我常陷入不自信、过度关注他人眼光、习惯自我批判与拖延的循环。我甚至学会通过不断付出和讨好来换取他人的肯定。这些长期的内在困境，促使我开始思考：如何才能与这些能量共处？于是，我将占星学与艺术创作结合，用它作为理解与疗愈自我的路径。
在我的作品中，星座与星盘困境被转化为叙事框架。我选择“小时候的我”作为叙述主角，通过自传式拼贴讲述自我探索的过程。我使用数字混合媒介拼贴的方法，结合童年照片、公共领域影像与数字绘制，并融入布料与刺绣线迹，使作品既带有数字超现实主义的张力，又保留手工拼贴质感的温度。
我不希望疗愈探索的拼贴变得过于沉重。虽然作品的切入点往往是负面能量和内心冲突，但我尝试用明亮而治愈的色彩作为回应，为画面注入缓解焦虑的力量。我希望观众能够在作品中看到自身的投射，在冲突与疗愈之间找到共鸣，从而获得一种温柔的自我接纳感。