X.C STUDIO
Urban Filter
Art · 2023–2024

Urban Filter

Chinatown, filtered through the seasons. The series turns the street's sounds, movement and energy into abstract forms, one season to a frame.

Cycles

The same few blocks of New York's Chinatown change every hour and every season. Urban Filter records that change as colour and line rather than as a picture of the place.

Each piece holds a moment of the cycle: awakening, glow, flare. Together they ask what stays when everything on the street keeps moving.

Urban Filter series, 2023 — four states of one street, shown together
Urban Filter series, 2023 — four states of one street, shown together
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Urban Filter 城市滤镜

Digital art · 2023–2024
Urban Filter
Plate 01
Urban Filter
Plate 02
Urban Filter
Plate 03
Urban Filter
Plate 04

The street's sounds, movement and energy, filtered into form. One drawing for each turn of the cycle: Awakening, Glow, Flare, and the Remix that brings them back together.

把街道的声音、流动与能量过滤成形状。每一张对应循环的一个时刻:苏醒、微光、燃起,以及把它们重新拼合的 Remix。

Shown at the CICA Museum (Figures 2024, Voices 2025) and Horizon Japan, Kyoto 2024; published in Al-Tiba9, Issue 19.

On fabric

Printed on fabric, the drawings behave differently: the lines bend with the cloth, and the colours catch the light as it folds. Blaze, Aqua and Remix were made for the fabric from the start.

What stays, when everything on the street keeps moving.

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2024PressAl-Tiba9 Contemporary Art MagazineIssue 19, print edition2023PressAl-Tiba9 Contemporary Art MagazineFeatured artist interview

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