“Intuition and narrativity should never stand in opposition; human intuition is uninterrupted, and every event is made up of uninterrupted intuition and rational choice. Rationality is a beautiful quality inherent in human beings, and choice proves their existence. The moment intuition is spoken, it becomes an event, and the event becomes a trace of intuition. My work is a balance between intuition and narrative. You see the world. You see yourself. The existence of the beauty of rationality and intuition is meaning.”
Jintong is a visual artist. In her work, she attempts to construct a new world through continuous intuition, her perceptions of the world, sensory experiences established with materials, and her own cultural experiences and identity. She uses narrative text to integrate intuition and events, and then seeks new intuition and feelings through sculpture, materials, and images within the text and events. Her work explores the neglect of human emotions in the face of macro-environmental influences and the disappearance of history in the ever-changing times. In her creation, she engages in dialogue with materials and space as a listener. Through sculpture, installation, and writing, Jintong transforms fictionalised text and materials from single-narrative, human-centric concepts into a new sculptural material, placing the artist's personal feelings within them and achieving a state of equality between humans and objects.
Whether it is Heidegger's ‘fourfold’ theory of ‘earth, sky, gods, and humans’ or Graham Harman's ‘real objects, real qualities, sensory objects, and sensory qualities,’ both express a tension between reality and the senses. The artist himself also has an artistic understanding of the fourfold structure, believing that materials, the artist's thoughts, the artwork, and the audience are indirectly connected in a fourfold manner. Jintong uses space to showcase the hidden tension of opposition and mutual advancement within this fourfold connection.
Education Background
Chelsea, University of the Arts London 09/2020-06/2024
Major: BA (Hons) Fine Art
Chelsea, University of the Arts London 09/2024-
Major: MA Fine Art
Group Works/Project
ADEMA-2024
Non-Published
Fiction: Stir-fried Swordfish
Fiction: The Death of the Rubber Duck
Works
The Strawberry from the Winter
The Death of the Rubber Duck
Under, Bridge
Black
Upward, backward or northward
Email: caijintong2019@163.com