Hao kexin biography definition

Kexin Hao is a visual artist and designer born in Beijing and based in The Netherlands. Her practice is a marriage between graphic design and performance art, and between art and non-art spaces.

Using a daring visual language, Kexin’s work is a constant swing between intimate close-up on personal stories and zoom-out to collective narratives; between a past of political heaviness and a flashy modernity rendered in humour and sarcasm.

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The process of the research:
In my graduation work “Total Body Workout”, I investigated in the subject—nationwide physical exercise routines and mass gymnastic performances from different regimes in the last century.

My research asked questions: How is our body scripted and shaped by the times it lives in? How are national agendas and political ideologies woven into bodily semiotics? How does one’s body memory become an integral part of hegemonic historical narratives?

And how do we inhabit a historical and totalised body? “Total Body Workout” prop