Ling Ding 丁澪

Ling Ding 丁澪 (b.2000)

DING LING 丁澪 (b.2000, China) is an independent artist, experimental filmmaker and curator, with a double masters degree in Information Experience Design and Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, currently based in London and Shanghai.

Using poetic fifilm, performance, writing, installation and experimental theatre as the main medium of expression, Ding metaphorically transforms natural elements into life experiences, incorporating the emotional projection of breaking through, fading, and trembling into abstract narratives. She explores death and loss, the relationship between the disquiet body and public space, the symbiosis of vulnerability and vitality brought about by walking and futility, absurdity and uncertainty. Her sense of life is flflowing and drifting, and often presents moments
of blurriness, out-of-focus and epilogue.

Ding’s works are rooted in her life experiences and cultural background, stemming from the artist’s keen perception of texts and images, and her obsession with light and shadow in dim spaces. Ding’s fifield of research inflfluenced by the philosophy of Nihilism and Taoism, combines studies on psychology, consciousness and memory to re-examine the dialectical relationship between the value of life and death, and questioning the signifificance of self-existence and the world: after reaching the void, we still have the wide power to question to life.

Ding’s works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Iklectik Lab; Aranya Theatre Festival; New Youth Experimental Art Biennale, etc.; she has curated exhibitions at the OXO Tower: Bargehouse Gallery in London, the Royal College of Art, etc.; and she has been selected for the 2021 World Cities Day, A’ Design Award, Italy, etc.

丁澪（b.2000）是⼀位独⽴艺术创作者、实验影像导演与策展⼈，双硕⼠毕业于英国皇家艺术学院信息体验设计与当代艺术实践专业，⽬前⽣活⼯作于伦敦和上海。

以诗意的影像、⾏为、写作、装置与实验戏剧等为主要表现媒介，丁澪将⾃然元素隐喻到⽣命体验，在抽象叙事中融⼊冲破、消逝、震颤的情感投射。探讨死亡与失去，探讨不安的身体与公共空间的关系，⾏⾛与徒劳、荒谬与不确定性带来的脆弱性和⽣命⼒的共⽣。她的⽣命感受是流动且飘荡的，作品时常呈现模糊、失焦与谢幕时刻。

丁澪的作品植根于⽣活经历与⽂化背景，来源于艺术家对⽂字和图像的敏锐感知，与对昏暗空间中光影的痴迷。丁澪的研究领域受虚⽆主义与道家哲学思想的影响，结合对⼼理学、意识与记忆的研究，重新探讨⽣命价值与死亡的辩证关系，向⾃我存在与世界的意义提问：在抵达虚⽆之后，我们依然拥有对⽣命的追问和开阔的力量。

丁澪作品曾展出于伦敦Tate Modern泰特现代美术馆、先锋实验⾳乐场地Iklectik Lab、阿那亚戏剧节候⻦300•梦游、新⻘年实验艺术双年展等；曾在伦敦OXO Tower: Bargehouse、英国皇家艺术学院等策划展览；曾⼊选2021年世界城市⽇，获意⼤利 A’ 国际设计奖等。

Exhibition (selected)

2024

Overlap, The Crypt Gallery, London
Trapped In Cycles, Candid Arts Gallery, London
Completion In Motion, Safehouse, London
Graduation Show, Royal College of Art, London
Tate Modern Late, Tate Modern, London
Tracing the Current, New Youth Experimental Art Biennale, Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery, Jingdezhen
Anonymous Letter&Epilogue, Montez Press Radio, London
Cinema Screening, Genesis Cinema, London
After the Post, Zhijiang Culture Centre, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Everything Must Go, Cookhouse Gallery, London
CAPbaret Performance, Gorvy Theatre, Battersea London

2023

COUNTERPOINT, Iklectik Lab, London
Aranya Theatre Festival&Canal Dream Festival, Regent Canal, Kings Cross London
The Fading Spaciousness, OXO Bargehouse Gallery, London

2021

BLUE UP Ocean Experimental Exhibition, World Cities Day, Pudong Centre, Shanghai