Xueqi Xing

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From"Please Ignore This Command" - Chicken — 🍗

From"Please Ignore This Command" - Book — 📕

"Please Ignore This Command" exhibited at the Dyson Building at RCA London (June 2025) — "Please Ignore This Command" exhibited at RCA, London (June 2025)

“Please Ignore This Command” is a moving image work that explores silence, obedience, trust, and the sense of existence. The film follows a silent rabbit as it continuously responds to vague commands, portraying an internal struggle to affirm the self without words. Through repetitive visuals and minimal narration, the piece constructs a psychological space where one is compelled to respond, yet never receives an answer, an experience of unheard voices, quiet resistance, and the fragile will to exist.

About

Xueqi Xing (b. 2002, China) is an artist and designer based in London. Her work explores the fluid states of meaning, identity, and presence. Rather than seeking definitive conclusions, she creates spaces where ambiguity, fragility, and absurdity coexist, allowing thought to remain in motion.

Xing’s artistic practice moves between reality and imagination, structure and collapse, constructing symbolic and dislocated visual language that reveals the instability of identity. She is interested in how the self is shaped under the gaze of others and how it subtly transforms through projection, emotional fluctuation, and exchange.

Working across painting, animation, moving image, and publishing, Xing approaches art as a form of dialogue with the unknown, a way to access emotions and states that resist definition. Her work unfolds in fragments, offering an open invitation into inner worlds, where fleeting and ineffable experiences are made visible, shareable, and collectively held.

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