Ailin Xu (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist from China. Her practice spans video, installation, photography, and graphic design, moving fluidly across diverse media to employ a delicate yet poetic visual language in responding to the complex and nuanced relationship between technology and humanity.
Ailin’s works investigate the ways technological systems mediate human society and reconfigure our experience of the natural world. Attuned to the overlooked and the ephemeral, Ailin draws attention to the fleeting gestures and social undercurrents that shape contemporary life—an unspoken rule, an unconscious habit, a forgotten object. Through the lens of visual storytelling, these moments are re-surfaced and reframed, not as resolved narratives, but as open spaces for perception, questioning, and reflection. In doing so, her practice constructs immersive encounters that invite audiences to navigate the shifting terrain between the sensory and the conceptual.
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Education
Royal College of Art MA
Information Experience Design
2025
Central Academy of Fine Art BA
Future Media
2020-2024
Exhibitions
2025
· Ashes of Speed, TV Centre, London, UK
· Ashes of Speed, RCA White City Garden House, London, UK
2024
· Illusion Isle, CAFA Museum, Beijing, China