Kexin Hong

Kexin Hong's artistic practice is anchored in an interrogation of how technology, trauma, and identity become historically entangled through systems of power. Her work across essay film, single-channel video, installation, and sound probes the ways digital infrastructures and media systems extract, weaponize, and instrumentalize both personal and collective trauma for purposes of identity formation and control. By treating material—tempered glass, ITO film, microchips—as simultaneously sculptural and evidentiary, Hong positions her work as an archive of technological violence. Her sustained investigation into what she calls "tech fascism" encompasses critiques of surveillance infrastructure, examinations of human-AI collaboration, and studies of grief forms rendered illegible or "disenfranchised" by dominant socio-political frameworks. Central to her practice is the proposition that fiction—deployed strategically within artistic form—might constitute a site of reclamation, resistance, and alternative modes of agency.