Xinyu Huang (b.1998, Chongqing, China) is a practice-based PhD researcher at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Her practice centres on photography and extends into photography-based material and multi-media experimentation, examining how temporality and materiality intertwine. Through the tensions between stillness and duration, between the fleeting and the eternal, she investigates how the rift between perception and representation might be bridged. Deeply informed by the wilderness landscapes of Scotland, her current research examines primordial bonds between human beings and the world as potential ways to rethink individual existence within contemporary conditions of alienation, seeking to challenge the fragmented perceptual experience and mechanisms of alienation characteristic of modernity.