Xiaolu Yan

Xiaolu Yan is a design researcher based in Shanghai. She is fascinated by the invisible part of the many forces that shape space. Previously she researched the entanglements between media reproduction and urban theory. Recently she investigates urban infrastructures and technologies, digital capitalism and spatial production. Xiaolu Yan is also invested in the cultural psychoanalysis of the metropolis with a focus on object-orientation and the Anthropocene. Her work uses the medium as a metaphor to create artistic research which she believes to traverse old disciplinary barriers and traditions as well as new ones.

Xiaolu Yan graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a master's degree in architecture. She participates in the SCL Curatorial Residency Programme on the theme of “Urban Regeneration through Art and Architecture”. Some of the scholarships and awards she has received are: the 8th China Habitat Environment Design Annual Award, the British Ecology Design Award, the AUBE Fellowship and the Hong Kong Contemporary Design Awards. Her photographs were exhibited at Uncanny Home, DEMO&3ge3 project in Shanghai and at Whitefield in Beijing.