Self-Portraiture as Method
The self-portrait is not a likeness but a live method for producing, testing and transforming a subject.
ARTIST · FILMMAKER · ARTISTIC RESEARCHER
I was bornto become.
An evolving archive of moving image, self-portraiture, performance, participatory art and reduction block print — where body, material and image become methods of knowing.
THRESHOLD / BECOMING / INVOCATION
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Selected works
Browse by medium. Open a work to enter its material, process and threshold.
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Research as practice
The work does not illustrate a theory. Knowledge is produced through duration, resistance, relation and irreversible change.
Threshold Process
The work stays with the interval before a body, image or relation becomes fixed and fully named.
Transformational Aesthetics
Knowledge emerges through bodily duration, material resistance, seriality, relation and irreversible change.
PORTRAIT
FORTHCOMING
FORTHCOMING
03Inquire about the work↗
Fvanlinia (Niu Yiru)
Fvanlinia is an artist, filmmaker and artistic researcher. Her cross-disciplinary practice attends to transformations between body, image, material and subjectivity, asking how perception, memory, identity and relation take form through artistic process.
BA Philosophy & Religious Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, with Visual Arts studies. Performance training in London at RADA, Central Saint Martins and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Reduction block print training with He Kun in Pu’er, 2026.
Selected exhibition & presentation
2026 · Graduate exhibition of He Kun Art Museum, Pu’er — participating artist
2026 · Self-Image as Threshold, Kunming — developing presentation