X(iao) Y(u)
Born in Wuhan, China
Now lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
About:
I am a researcher, visual artist, and organiser working across photography, writing, independent publishing, and community organising. My practice investigates everyday life and our relationships with natural and social surroundings through observation, research, and material processes. I have developed a process-oriented method which I call doing and seeing — an approach that weaves together embodied experience, slow attention, and learning through making.
My work is a part of my lived experience as an Asian female in the Netherlands, where questions of displacement, cultural translation, and belonging shape both my artistic and research-based approaches. Rather than understanding places as fixed spatial entities, I conceptualise places as experiences – places are relational and constantly shifting, influenced by memory, movement, and cultural context.
Through long-term projects and collaborative frameworks, I seek to create conditions for attention — spaces where the subtle textures of daily life can surface, and where meaning unfolds through presence, continuity, and care.