WTF?

Sian Fan is an interdisciplinary artist working in London, where she is currently an artist in residence at the V&A Museum. Having a background in performance art, Sian thinks about being human in the digital age. Examining how we construct identities and existences in digital spaces that go beyond our physical bodies, Sian is interested in using interactive technologies to create direct connections between the physical and the virtual. Often using florals to represent the spiritual quality of being human, her work feels like an entwinement of a virtual simulation and the natural world. In doing so, she works with the complexities of the human experience in our increasingly digitised and hyperconnected world. 

She has exhibited internationally with institutions including Tate Modern, CADAF, and the ICA, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC and Facebook/Meta. Coming from a mixed background (Chinese and British) her work meditates on her own fragmented sense of identity, exploring what it means to exist in between worlds. Via her work she delves into her complicated connections with her own heritage, reflecting on Asian diaspora, Imposter syndrome and mixed identities. She seeks to explore, expose, and expand these thresholds of human identity where one exists as both and neither at the same time.


EDUCATION: 

2018-2022, MA Fine Central Saint Martins

2011-2014, The University of Brighton, BA Performance & Visual Art Dance, 1st Class with Hons