DISCIPLINE: FINE ART
CAREER AREA OF INTEREST: Yuxin Teng has developed a practice that merges painting, stitching, sculpture, and installation, allowing materials to guide the work rather than imposing fixed designs
BIO: Yuxin Teng is a Chinese artist currently completing her MA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. With a background in traditional painting form Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, she has developed a practice that merges painting, stitching, sculpture, and installation, allowing materials to guide the work rather than imposing fixed designs.
Her current practice is rooted in a personal and family experience, her father’s congenital spinal condition. This encounter with a fragile, hereditary structure became a starting point for imagining how her own body might carry hidden risks and unspoken memories. From there she began to build a visual language of bones, seams, scars, and thorns-not to heal or conceal, but to keep the wound breathing. Teng’s works often take shape through fragile materials such as mulberry paper, thread, and branches. These materials embody both tenderness and vulnerability, whispering a kind of memory that lies beyond language. Her practice emphasizes non-linear growth, hesitation, and incompleteness. Cracks, sutures, and provisional frames are not mistakes but metaphors for an unfinished subjectivity.
Through this process, Teng aims to create spaces where viewers can approach the work intimately, sensing the coexistence of trauma and care, fragility and resilience. Her aspiration is to continue this research at doctoral level, expanding her exploration of “bones as emotional structures” into broader conversations around feminist theory, epigenetics, and material culture.
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