white mushroom, black earth

Mengxi Rao is a Chinese media artist and filmmaker who is currently interested in pushing edges visual storytelling. As an MFA candidate at Temple University, Philadelphia, she calls herself an artist-to-be, for she is still in the middle of defining her field of artistic expression; also because of the fact that she frequently makes ‘to-be’ art that only become complete when viewers choose to believe and engage. The completed pieces are unique to each individual. As a life long writer, she has been trying to transplant the playfulness of literature and the sophistication of words into her filmmaking, creating visual arts that could be read as rich semiotic systems of symbols and significations, and those who choose to explore and navigate through them can eventually see beyond the plain texts and find their own answers. Mengxi values the cooperation between the viewers and her, in which each participant creates his or her own art.

 

Click here to check out Mengxi's newest project Touch: the Dance.