Xiao
Born and raised in Beijing, Lexy (also known as Xiao Liangzi) is an artist and researcher, based at Fotoverkstedet & Isotop in Bergen. She works with experimental analogue photographic techniques, textile, and moving images, viewing photography as a form of performance and action that extends beyond the content of the image. She sees her artistic practice as a way to reach self-awareness and self-transcendence. She is interested in repetitive gestures, durational performance, materiality, exploring how time, perception, and repetition can produce a form of visibility and aesthetic experience. She tends to interpret her investigations in a philosophical way,
trying to build a connected, consistent and poetic theory system through her artistic practice.
Lexy has developed an alternative technique called Silver Mirroring Toning, which restores the shiny silver to the surface of silver gelatin materials. This process transforms the silver mirroring degradation of photographs into a mesmerizing visual effect, and even a protection layer for the analogue prints. She aims to spread analogue photography art related knowledge, reinterpret traditional techniques from a contemporary perspective, and expand hands-on engagement with analogue photography.