2025PCM

2025PCM(2025)

Single-channel video projection (color, sound) on 90° architectural surface
100 × 200 cm (39.4 × 78.7 in.) [Projection surface]
30 min. 00 sec. loop
· Alternative Roots, Hoxton Hall (London), 2025
· In collaboration with Joy Chao (Videographer). Commissioned by Kakilang, 2025.

As a response to the encroaching structural determinism of contemporary life and London’s cost of living crisis, X&J presents 2025PCM, a projection-mapped film installation at the intersection of immersive media, 3D film production techniques, and physical performance, made for 90-degree building facades around London. Inspired by Xin’s first studio in London, the installation depicts a London flat measuring just one cubic metre, fully furnished with bare essentials with an IKEA-esque aesthetic. It captures the absurdity of a London home that is way too small for a price that is way too high. The film follows Xin as she attempts to make it her own, even if just for a while, as the timer to her own right to live in London ticks down.

Building a (barely) livable cubic meter flat

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Xin Wen and JJ Agcaoili operate as XJ: a Chinese-American and Filipino artistic duo grown out of London, now working internationally. Their award-winning practice reckons with the human subject in collision with the material and digital structures that determine contemporary life. This focus is embodied in their expansive body of work across experimental video, kinetic sculpture, and immersive installation, which has been exhibited in Stockholm, San Francisco, Taiwan, Linz, Singapore, London, and more.

Exhibitions & Appearances

2026 Solo exhibition, MVR Gallery (Ithaca, New York)
2026 Solo exhibition, Helix Art Space (Stockholm)
2026 Artist Talk, Helix Art Space (Stockholm)
2025 Silent Interference, Turtle Chamber Projects (Taoyuan City, Taiwan)
2025 Alternative Roots, Hoxton Hall (London)
2025 Speculum Artium Festival (Trbovlje, Slovenia)
2025 Artist Talk, Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
2024 Solo exhibition, Asian Art Museum x RAD (San Francisco)
2024 Into the Future, Whitespace Gallery (Edinburgh)
2024 Artist Talk, Technarte Conference for Art and Technology (Bilbao)
2023 Royal Society of Sculptors (London)
2023 CIRCA2023, Piccadilly Lights (London; also: Berlin, Milan)
2023 Ars Electronica Festival 2023 (Linz)
2023 ART-ACT Festival, Singapore Art Week (Singapore)

Awards & Commissions

2025 Kakilang Commission
2024 Artsted 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists
2023 CIRCA 20:23 Public Vote Prize
2023 Interplay Kinetic Design: Major Award & £1K Grant
2023 Media Architecture Biennale 2023 Finalist

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