Xiaoyin Luo is a Chinese interdisciplinary textile artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada. Under her art name Xitong, she is interested in the collaborative potential of craft and how it emerges as a possibility for crafting belongings in a world of flux and isolation. Her current works explore the role of materiality and tactility in contemporary art by reutilizing discarded fibre materials in papermaking, kami-ito (paper thread) making, and weaving practices. Her practice focuses on the physical engagement of natural materials and the slow process of craft practice as a vital methodological approach for exploring and expressing the complexities caused by Solastalgia, the existential unease provoked by the environmental collapse of our world. Luo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Publication from OCAD University (2022). She recently conducted her material research in Vancouver, BC, which is on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations, from where she acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University (2024). Luo is a current Artist-in Residence at the Harbourfront Centre for Craft in Toronto.
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