Salty Xi Jie Ng (b. 1987, Singapore) is an artist and educator co-creating semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the interdimensional intimate vernacular. Researching ancestry, eroticism, death, ageing, and what gets to be called art, her transdisciplinary practice proposes a collective re-imagining through humour, care, subversion, discomfort, institutional critique, a celebration of the eccentric, and a commitment to the deeply personal, in hopes of uncovering hidden selves and histories in kinship with the other-than-human. 

While in residence, Xi Jie will be exploring the relationship between socially engaged art and institutions, as well as the intersections of grief and Chinese folk rituals.

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Hero banner: Xi Jie (right) in Eldest Grandchild’s Narcissistic Talkshow With Grandmas, part of  her self-initiated Grandparents Residency, an artist residency with grandparents as site. The talkshow was all about Xi Jie, from birth to her grandmas’ hopes for her future.

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