EVELYN XINYI HU 胡心依
Evelyn Xinyi Hu(b.2002), she is an artist working across China, the UK, and South Korea. She consistently employs walking as a methodological approach for interdisciplinary research and artistic practice. Integrating painting, installation, moving image, and site-specific inquiry, her work delves into charged sites such as war remnants and natural-cultural heritage landscapes, uncovering the layered histories beneath contemporary appearances of peace.
Currently, her practice focuses on the Thames River and the lingering energies and perceptual traces of past wars embedded in present-day landscapes. Through techniques such as counter-mapping, she seeks to deconstruct anthropocentric historical narratives and transform personal reflections into responses to broader systemic conditions.
胡心依作为艺术家创作于中国、英国、韩国。她始终以“步行”为方法论进行跨学科研究和创作，她结合绘画、装置、影像与在地性研究，深入战争遗骸、自然文化遗产等特殊地点，挖掘现今和平表象之下的复杂历史。
目前她特别关注泰晤士河与既往战争在当下地景中所留存的能量与感知痕迹，使用“反制图”
等方式尝试剖析“人类中心化”的历史，将个人反思成果转化为对更大系统的回应。
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I walked from Cirencester to the dried-up source of the Thames, tracing the riverbed until I found the first flowing water. This journey became a spiritual map, revealing contrasts between purity and pollution. I staged a satirical hunt for a " barbaric " stone to critique how humans scapegoat nature and sign "unequal treaties" with it. Through counter-mapping, the river becomes a silent witness to empire, violence, and erased histories.
Mixed materials
2025
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Resonance Unfading
At the Kent gunpowder site, a wind chime of stone and
copper tubes resonates in the wind. A stone from the site, alongside Rhine River fragments, carries echoes of war and
time. As the wind moves, copper tubes strike the stone, producing a sound that bridges past, present, and future.
Installation
2025
Oare Gunpowder Works Country Park, Faversham, Kent, UK
Seagulls fly away
“Will it come back?”
“For seagulls, long-term interactions and memories can recognise a particular individual, and if you give enough! you'll be remembered but seagulls don't give up on the sea.”
Film photography
2024
Jeongdongjin, South Korea
Tracing the snow
This photograph was taken during a hike on Jeju Island, as I attempted to follow the traces of snow. From above, the landscape appeared covered in white; yet upon arrival, it had transformed into a marsh. This temporal shift revealed the quiet power of natural processes—unfolding beyond human control or perception. Through this image, I explore how time, landscape, and memory entangle in fleeting, material traces.
Film photography
2024
Jeju, South Korea
A Walk in Macao: “Pilgrimage Path”
This walking-based artistic practice took place on the Macau Peninsula, where I intervened in the urban landscape through walking. By observing the “Doorway Earth Gods” — a local religious tradition — I developed a series of analog photographs. The act of walking became a means to reflect on the relationship between belief and the human presence within the city.
Film photography
2024
Macao, China