Xiang Ru 香入
xiang ru ^-^
香入 （b.1999）现工作与生活于伦敦结合使用有机的媒介和技术性的过程，如菌丝体和3D打印，香入用虚构的方式创作生态系统。通过引用深海和太空的视觉，她的作品探讨人类世之后的克苏鲁世-一个被工业生产和基因工厂改变的世界并想象共存的可能性。
Growing up on video games and manga during China's economic growth era, Xiang Ru are fascinated by Digimons and early digital aesthetics. They see a transforming innocence embedded in cuteness and clumsy digital graphics. Xiang Ru research beyond human ecosystems and climate urgency. Drawing from Benjamin’s idea of history as ruins, queer kinship, and deep time, Xiang Ru hope to fictionise and fabricate a symbiotic kinship with their surrounding using 3D printing and non-human agents.
Xiang Ru use both bio and digital processes to create worlds in the transformation process.
They use bio-process, such as decay and growth, and non-human agents, such as fungus and spirulina, to queer established forms, forging a creature in transition. Reflecting on materials invented in industrial production, Xiang Ru invite plastic and digitally aided making processes. Using kinetic mechanisms, 3D printing, and found objects, Xiang Ru craft “angelic presence”- Frankensteinish hybrids that are healing messengers between realms. Xiang Ru have lovingly written a story for each one of them - they are co-actors in Xiang Ru’s world.
Instead of creating autonomous objects, Xiang Ru see their work as a series of networked relations or an ecological web. Sometimes naughty, sometimes cute, the angelic creatures jump between different ecological dynamics, creating a kinship of hope.