Jingyi Gao is a London-based Chinese digital artist working across experimental video, installation, photography, and performance. Her practice explores the relationships between gender, ways of seeing, and the body, often through the distortion and exaggeration of familiar everyday and cultural symbols.
By placing these elements within strange and absurd contexts, she examines how power, desire, and subjectivity are constructed and perceived. Drawing on humor and absurdist black comedy, her work reveals structural gazes and social norms while foregrounding bodily and emotional experiences that are often marginalized, overlooked, or stigmatized.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Boxed In is an experimental film that explores women’s complex roles within family and society under patriarchal structures. Using found footage and mixed media imagery, the film examines women’s agency, resistance, and resilience across different social contexts.
The work unfolds through three interconnected narratives: a mother trapped within a patriarchal family system, a daughter torn between familial expectations and her passion for dance, and a single woman confronting institutional barriers to reproductive healthcare. Together, these stories reveal the social constraints placed on women while highlighting moments of defiance and self-expression.
Drawing from the filmmaker’s personal experiences, Boxed In combines experimental storytelling and symbolic imagery to question gender norms and reflect on women’s autonomy within contemporary society.
