Ada Eni Xu

'Mythica-huàn' is an encouragement to practise describing our own futures through mythology and speculative storytelling. For me, that means attempting to reconnect with my cultural background through writing, drawing and printmaking. 'Mythica-huàn' suspends in time collages of mythological worlds, previously used to explain our world, that have now been relegated to fanciful entertainment, without consideration of their greater value in helping us envision our futures. But our visions for the future are, much like my cultural connections, tenuous and precarious; light, shadows and movement change and shape the thin, almost translucent xuan-paper, allowing the work to absorb the space it occupies.