Jintong Cai

“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 works, she tries to construct a new world with continuous intuition, feelings about the world, and the artist's cultural experiences and sources of identity. She uses narrative text to integrate intuition and happenings and finally finds new intuitions and feelings within the text and happenings through sculpture, materials, and images. Her work explores the disregard of human emotions in the face of macro-environmental influences and the fading of history in the face of changing times.

Through sculpture, installation, video and writing, Jintong makes the fictionalised text less of a singular narrativised concept and more of the artist's personal feelings, turning the text into a new sculptural material.



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 Death of the Rubber Duck
Under,  Bridge

Black
Upward, backward or northward



Email: caijintong2019@163.com
Instagram
Black

In this project, I chose the most direct way to choose materials and touch them. I use the common construction material steel as the main supporting skeletal structure of the sculpture, the rubber and plastic tubes become the skin on display, and the plastic tubes become the language system. I let the viewer feel the language and life from the materials themselves, focusing on the properties of the materials themselves rather than the functionality of the human world in which humans use them. I collected language and released life in this project.


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