Xi Jie Ng (Salty) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and performance maker from the tropical metropolis of Singapore.
Her work explores possibilities in the poetic, eccentric and infinite everyday from an often personal place. She makes collaborative encounters that are intimate, semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans.
This context-specific practice is concerned with presenting diverse perspectives, challenging dominant power structures in offbeat, humorous ways and facilitating the unexpected, often serendipitous results of working in a socially engaged manner. She sees this as a kind of activism that implicitly proposes a world in which she would like to live. She is interested in the roles of authority, performance, truth and fantasy within her practice as she considers the relationship between art and life as well as the identities we perform. By holding these inquiries at the forefront, she enriches the spatial and energetic possibilities of the places and situations we inhabit.
She will soon graduate from the MFA in art & social practice program at Portland State University. Her work has been supported by the Singapore National Arts Council postgraduate scholarship, the Singapore Film Commission, the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Oregon).
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galaxyladybird@gmail.com
instagram @saltyxijie
Her work explores possibilities in the poetic, eccentric and infinite everyday from an often personal place. She makes collaborative encounters that are intimate, semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans.
This context-specific practice is concerned with presenting diverse perspectives, challenging dominant power structures in offbeat, humorous ways and facilitating the unexpected, often serendipitous results of working in a socially engaged manner. She sees this as a kind of activism that implicitly proposes a world in which she would like to live. She is interested in the roles of authority, performance, truth and fantasy within her practice as she considers the relationship between art and life as well as the identities we perform. By holding these inquiries at the forefront, she enriches the spatial and energetic possibilities of the places and situations we inhabit.
She will soon graduate from the MFA in art & social practice program at Portland State University. Her work has been supported by the Singapore National Arts Council postgraduate scholarship, the Singapore Film Commission, the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Oregon).
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galaxyladybird@gmail.com
instagram @saltyxijie
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