My practice explores memory and childhood. This interest developed through working with young children, which encouraged me to reflect how childhood is remembered individually, represented across cultures, and reshaped over time. Each person experiences childhood differently due to a range of social, cultural, and personal factors. What interests to me most is that memory can never be fully recreated. Instead, it becomes fragmented, distant, and continually altered through personal interpretation.
Nina Ji
Shifting Grounds
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Shifting Grounds Series
Inspired by artworks such as Mega Please Draw Freely (2021, 2025) by Ei Arakawa-Nash and Colour Paths (2025) by Adam Kalinowski. I seek to create welcoming spaces that evoke a collective memory of being childlike in the present moment. Shifting Grounds Series invite viewers to physically engage with the installation, positioning participants as an essential part of the work. Rather than communicating a fixed meaning determined solely by me as the artist, the works remain open-ended, with meanings emerging through their participation.Through interactions, the works are continuously shifted and recreated, echoing the unstable and evolving nature of memory itself.
Shifting Grounds Series
Materiality
Although I specialise in painting, my practice is heavily hands-on and tactile. I believe there is a sense of delicacy in handmade objects, a quality that makes viewers want to protect. This interest is supported by The Beauty of Everyday Things, where Yanagi advocates for the objects made slowly and care, in contrast to mass production. In my work, I use found and “imperfect” materials, such as workshop scraps and charity shop items, as they carry traces of touch and history. By reworking with these materials, I aim to give them a new meaning.
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Nina Ji
Shifting Grounds
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