Naixuan Dong
- @naixuan_d
My practice explores how the “self” is shaped through everyday experiences, how emotions, memories, and desires are projected onto objects and spaces. I work mainly with installation and digital media, often combining ready-made materials with moving images to observe how the real and the represented overlap, disturb, or mirror each other.
Influenced by psychological ideas of projection and New Materialism, I see the everyday not as background but as an active force that shapes how we think and feel. The things we use every day, simple, repetitive, and often overlooked, quietly record our habits, fears, and attachments. By focusing on these ordinary materials, I try to reveal how functionality itself carries emotion and meaning, and how the unnoticed becomes the most intimate part of our lives.
Living between cultures makes me sensitive to the act of looking. To see and to be seen are inseparable. My works often start from small observations in daily life, turning simple moments into sites of reflection. I am drawn to the quiet, ordinary states that feel both stable and fragile, where control and uncertainty coexist.
I do not seek perfection or spectacle. What interests me is the texture of the real, sometimes flat, sometimes emotional, the kind of truth that only appears in passing. I want my works to let the everyday reveal its emotional and philosophical weight in silence.