Xinyu Lu
Xinyu Lu is a London-based artist working across performance, textile, and object-based installation. Her practice explores intuitive making, embodied memory, and the quiet politics of everyday gestures. With a background in design and contemporary art, she works with discarded materials, fabric, and language to construct poetic structures that question failure, repetition, and unresolved transformation.She is currently studying MA Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston University, where her research investigates how tactile knowledge and bodily unlearning can become subtle forms of resistance and care.
Unfastened is a performance and material study that explores the act of undoing as a form of embodied knowledge. Using raw linen cloth wrapped around the body, the work unfolds through slow movement, hesitation, and quiet struggle. It reflects on how we learn without instruction—through touch, repetition, and failure—and how memory can reside not only in the mind, but in the weight and friction of material.
The piece resists formal choreography. Instead, it allows gestures to emerge intuitively, shaped by breath and tension. Fabric is not just a costume, but a collaborator—something to resist, drag, hold, and release.
Presented as a video, Unfastened invites the viewer into a space where unlearning is not loss, but a way of knowing. It is a soft ref
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