Xi Jie Ng (Salty) is from the tropical metropolis of Singapore. Her work explores the inherent possibilities in the poetic, eccentric, and infinite everyday. She makes collaborative encounters that are intimate, semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans. She is interested in seniors as their own cosmos, the role of clown in relation to our deepest selves, the intersection between art, nature and spirituality, and performance that transforms the everyday.
She has worked with buskers, seniors, her grandparents, cafeteria staff, migrant workers and friends in rural India; in a Finnish forest, a restored thrift store, the basement of an old electrical station, by a creek; given facials, embroidered chakras and braided hair.
Recently she was a founding member of Portland Tropical Gardens, proposed a new design for Portland’s city seal, conducted an interdisciplinary investigation inspired by bunions, and made a performance based on a birth chart reading by artist-astrologer Renee Sills.
She is currently in the MFA in Art & Social Practice program at Portland State University with support from the National Arts Council (Singapore) postgraduate scholarship. In 2017 she was awarded second place in the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize.
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She has worked with buskers, seniors, her grandparents, cafeteria staff, migrant workers and friends in rural India; in a Finnish forest, a restored thrift store, the basement of an old electrical station, by a creek; given facials, embroidered chakras and braided hair.
Recently she was a founding member of Portland Tropical Gardens, proposed a new design for Portland’s city seal, conducted an interdisciplinary investigation inspired by bunions, and made a performance based on a birth chart reading by artist-astrologer Renee Sills.
She is currently in the MFA in Art & Social Practice program at Portland State University with support from the National Arts Council (Singapore) postgraduate scholarship. In 2017 she was awarded second place in the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize.
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write me
instagram @saltyxijie
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