Chengdu-born, London-based performance artist Xie Rong makes striking work that subverts ideas of femininity and “Chineseness”, drawing on her own experiences of childhood, family, marriage and motherhood for the purpose. Her practice revolves around her body—whether using her hair as a paint brush, adorning herself with black Chinese ink, or covering herself in her own breast milk. Her art, she tells Hettie Judah in Judah’s latest feature for Elephant on motherhood in the art world, has been integral in coming to terms with the “strangeness and multi-layered emotions” involved in childbirth—and yet having children has changed the industry’s perception of her. Read the full feature here.
