Tingxuan Du

About

My work explores the shifting nature of identity, the emotional terrain of the body, and the invisible tensions that shape our inner and outer worlds. Drawing from personal experience, I use visual storytelling, spatial research, and material experimentation to question how identity is constructed, fragmented, and reconstructed—especially in relation to place, memory, and cultural displacement.

The body, in my work, is both subject and medium—a site of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation. I often investigate the ways in which emotions are embodied, suppressed, or expressed, and how they interact with social environments and physical spaces. Clothing, architecture, and language become tools for navigating and negotiating these complex intersections.

My current research focuses on how built environments, like museums, influence personal identity and emotional experience—particularly for those living between cultures. Through this lens, I experiment with translating architectural language into wearable forms, using fashion as a means to reconstruct self-perception and belonging.

Ultimately, my practice is a continuous dialogue between the personal and the collective, the physical and the psychological. I seek to create work that not only documents the emotional landscape of identity but also offers space for others to see parts of their own stories reflected in it.