Wang Xiya, visual artist, currently living and working in Shanghai. She bases her work on photography, moving image and multimedia installations, focusing on the gaze, absence, power, space, wandering, hauntology and the connection between them and historical and cultural narratives. The work explores how the image, as a proxy for viewing in symbolic space, arrives at a specific stage of imaginary void.
She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, with an MFA in 2024. In 2023, She won the 1839 Photography Award and exhibited in Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum in China. In 2024, She won Schloss Plüschow Scholarship in Germany. In 2025, her work was selected at the Queer East Festival in London.

Yuyue He explores identity, social structures, and the politics of visibility, bridging personal experience and public discourse. Her work engages with diasporic identity, folklore, and faith, focusing on overlooked symbols in collective memory. Using a fragmented, nonlinear language, she examines how societal norms shape individuals while seeking agency within their ruptures.