DIRECTORY 2025

Ding Ling | Performance, Video & Film

Ding Ling 丁澪 (b.2000, China) is an independent artist, filmmaker, and curator with a double Master's degree in Contemporary Art Practice and Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art, currently based in Shanghai and London. Ding's works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Pioneer sound venue Iklectik Lab; Aranya Theatre Festival; New Youth Experimental Art Biennale and many renowned international galleries, and she has been selected for the 2021 World Cities Day, A' Design Award, Italy, etc. Her work has been published in publications, including the RCA Contemporary Art Practice Yearbook.

Using poetic film, performance, writing, installation, and experimental theatre as the main medium of expression, Ding metaphorically transforms natural elements into life experiences, incorporating the emotional projection of breaking through, fading, and trembling into abstract narratives. She explores death and loss, the relationship between the disquiet body and public space, the symbiosis of vulnerability and vitality brought about by walking and futility, absurdity, and uncertainty. Her sense of life is flowing and drifting and often presents moments of blurriness, out-of-focus, and epilogue.

Ding's works are rooted in her life experiences and cultural background, stemming from the artist's keen perception of texts and images, as well as her obsession with light and shadow in dim spaces. Ding's field of research, influenced by the philosophy of Nihilism and Taoism, combines studies on psychology, consciousness, and memory to re-examine the dialectical relationship between the value of life and death, and questioning the significance of self-existence and the world after reaching the void, we still have the wide power to question to life.

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