SHE GETS BORED

(and Other Truths)

XINGXIN HU

In her latest body of work, Xingxin Hu continues her introspective exploration of contemporary femininity: its quiet ruptures, its daily negotiations, its soft intimacies. Drawing from personal memory and second-hand experience, Hu constructs intimate psychological landscapes in which the female body and everyday objects act as vessels for complex emotional states: longing, disconnection, quiet defiance.


A yellow shoe with green laces on a yellow surface

Acid Jazz, 2025, Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm

€ 5800

“I remain deeply fascinated by those ambiguous zones between defined emotions or states of being: suspicious desires, fragile self-assurance, that fleeting sense of boredom…”

Close-up of yellow and green flower petals.

Titled after one of the works in the show, She Gets Bored, (and Other Truths) suggests an understated rebellion. It reflects a fatigue with roles imposed, scripts rehearsed, and images inherited. In Hu’s paintings, domestic motifs and bodily fragments are suspended in moments of stasis or drift, charged with both tenderness and tension. The familiar is made strange, as if viewed through the lens of memory or dream, where softness becomes a site of resistance.

Through a language of stillness and nuance, Hu visualizes the murky space between how femininity is felt and how it is performed. Her works reflect a desire to reconcile the innate with the constructed, capturing the uneasy choreography between interior perception and external expectation. The female subjects, often alone and sometimes partially obscured or cropped, are not passive but self-aware, poised at the edge of becoming or undoing.

Dive Right In, 2025, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

€ 3500

A painting of a woman with long hair, seen in profile, with her eyes closed, lips slightly parted, and a cigarette in her mouth, against a soft peach background.

How Do You Feel When The Day Is Done, 2025, Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm

€ 1800

 “When someone’s by themselves without being watched, without having to respond to anyone else, that’s when something real emerges, that’s the moment I want to capture. So solitude in my paintings feels like a passage through which I can reveal something hidden.”


Close-up of a yellow lemon with a small metallic and plastic object at its center, resembling an electrical outlet.
A painting of a person's buttocks and lower back, wearing white underwear, with a small insect on the underwear.

Gold Velvet, 2024, Oil on canvas, 61 x 61 cm

€ 4100

Interval, 2025, Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm

€ 5800

There is a slowness to these images that invites sustained attention. Much like the title implies, Hu’s work refuses spectacle. Instead, it offers a quiet assertion of truths too often overlooked or dismissed.

She asks: What truths emerge when we stop performing?


A small, stylized bird illustration on a circular, abstract background in soft shades of pink and yellow.

Ragpicker in Istanbul, 2025, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm

€ 2500

A person holding a compact mirror reflecting their fingers making a peace sign, with a yellowish background and a mostly yellow color palette.

“I will continue to be curious about exploring and revealing the complexity of humanity, especially women: their emotions, desires, and states of being.”


She Gets Bored, 2024, Oil on canvas, 58 x 58 cm

€ 4100

She Gets Bored, (and Other Truths) continues Hu’s ongoing inquiry into the psychic residues of gender, identity, and social memory. With this series, she deepens her distinct visual lexicon. It is at once vulnerable and assertive, crafting a poignant meditation on the fragmented realities of being seen, shaped, and self-determined.


Rubber Soul, 2024, Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

€ 2100

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