Your Room

Your Room Project investigates the intimate relationship between people, memory, and space—how they hold one another, how they shift, and how they ultimately blur together.

Your Room is an ongoing project rooted in the personal migration experiences of the artist Zhilin Xiang. As a diasporic artist, their life has been shaped by constant movement across cities, countries, and emotional landscapes. With each transition, their sense of community, values, and beliefs have been challenged, deconstructed, and reassembled. This fluidity has deepened her emotional attachment to the spaces she inhabits—especially the rooms and homes shared with friends are often in motion. In this project, Zhilin visits rooms that are about to be left behind. Entering as a quiet observer, they seek not only to document the physical space but also to sense the layers of memory, intimacy, and presence embedded within it. Through Your Room, Zhilin explores the intimate relationship between people, memory, and space: how they hold one another, how they shift, and how, over time, they blur into one another. It is both a meditation on personal memory and a reflection of collective experiences within global patterns of movement and migration. Zhilin aims to make “your room” a project as a stable online community. Now it only exists on instagram as @yourroomproject, but soon it will have its own website page for everyone to explore and “live in”.