Banner image: The Snow to Fall, single channel moving image installation, 2024 © Else/Xun. Image Description: A colour photograph of a slightly see-through screen suspended in front of sheer curtains, with faint light shining from a window behind. On the screen is a projected image of a hand vacuuming a white embroidered sheet. The sheet takes up most of the screen. On the bottom left corner of the screen, a subtitle reads: 'collided, fallen apart'.

Latest collaboration: Else/Xun Zhang was shortlisted for the 2025 Baltic x Shape Arts Emergent programme.

Artist statement: Else/Xun is a researcher and artist who works primarily with moving image and creative-critical writing. Inhabiting chronic times, their practice-based research investigates the politics and potentials of care in the systematic carelessness of neoliberal societies. Fabulating dialogues that attend to the functioning of language and power relations, they tell stories to trace alternative modes of belonging and becoming centred around interdependency, care, and radical kinship. 

Else/Xun is an Artist in Residence at CW+ of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2024-25) and a member of Neighbours Group at Studio Voltaire (2025-28). Recent exhibitions and screenings include East Wing Biennial (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2025), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, 2025), Sonic Disruption (Tate Modern, London, 2024), and Queer Currents (ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, 2023). As part of the artist collective Hebianhengge 河邊哼歌, they have spoken about their research on Chinese queer language at Manchester China Institute (2022) and Queer China UK (2022). They work and live in London and hold an MRes in Arts & Humanities, followed by an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art.

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Landscape, self portrait, 2018 © Else/Xun. Image Description: A colour photograph of Else/Xun lying on the floor, their face turned away from the camera, their horizontal body aligned with the horizontal composition of the image. They have short black hair and wear a white summer dress with white socks and black pointy shoes. Behind them is a window, which follows the triangular shape of the roof. Light from the trees outside fills the room.