I'm Xian Zhen. I'm coming from China. So I call myself a vision artist. So the key words about my art is multi-perspective and the main method is drawing. So I try to use in drawing to watch, explore, and explore, and present the world. So I draw the villages, I draw the daily life spaces. Also I did a four or five year series about artists, Atelier. And after seven years living in Linz, recently, starting from last year, I started to slowly put my imagination and the realistic into my drawing together. About why did I choose art? Actually since I was a child, my mom found me very enjoy when I was five, six years old, I can enjoy drawing something. Later my father found maybe I should learn violin because I have a auntie, she's a musician. But later they found out when they are not watching me, I practice my violin this way. And then I realized, okay, this girl doesn't enjoy music, she enjoy drawing more. So since kids I learned drawing. But actually when I was in China, I learned the architecture as I want to be a designer because since I tried to learn it's not so easy to survive as an artist. But after I moved to Austria in 2017 I did my PhD in Kung-Soon Lin. I restart my childhood habit is drawing, and I found I enjoy a lot. And I found this is the thing I'm meant to do. Then I started to do it till today. It's actually still not so easy. I can't survive. Let's see. So I guess my finances feel hard. One I'm still holding one small workshop in Kusilin. So I get a bit payment for I can afford renting a room, and then I constantly apply some project or price. So thanks to Upper Austria where I'm living in Lens, there are so many in this institution for fund some project. And another is I realized actually I don't need so much money to survive. I don't spend so much and I cook at home. Then I thought okay although I don't have so much income but compared to life of Van Gogh or avant-garde in China in 1900 I think I'm so rich I can eat how much egg I want to eat. That's enough. Actually about how to get the fundings I also take this application as part of my job. If you want to be independent artist, I think this is a part of our job to constantly apply. So if I saw this open call, I will try it. So maybe, and I just represent what I did and what I plan to do. But yes, I will try to put a slight connection from my work come to the city where I apply for the project. Yes it's about if I have to hire money or have to organise myself, I found this both maybe good and drawback and forward. The good part is more and more I realize be an artist, maybe it's you liking you open your one person company. You are meanwhile a boss, an employee, you have to pay yourself and you have to pay responsibility. So this may be a bit hard, but also gives me quite a lot of freedom. So I can do and when I whatever and what I want to do. I have to say I kind of enjoy it. It's about how can... Yes, so it is always not so easy for the artist, but when I accepted this truth, I found, okay, it's fine. For example, if I don't have financing to make a holiday, then I'm making holiday links. So I always try to explore different streets, which I never walked in, and always found something new. And it also can spread my art. And about how to sell an art yes this is still struggling not so easy but I also found this no problem and because if I can use the time freely however I like to enjoy to do it I think this is already a pressure then the artwork which I produce maybe you you can consider it as an object. Then if people want to buy this object or not, it's not my decision to make. It's the market of the people. So if people buy it, I will be super pressured so they can support me continue to survive as an artist. If they have not yet found the pressure of my art, I thought, ah, survive I will continue to do it. About the female artists cooperation with gallery, this question I also don't know if I can answer because I still not yet found a gallery. Once a while when I saw some gallery maybe they have represented similar artists like drawing artists or paper artists, I will try to write them an email, but usually it's not working. But I personally don't know how the women female artists survive in China. Actually in China, we try to not emphasize the gender. Why? Because in the maybe, I don't know, half century before, when people want to say, you are a woman, you're doing great, then people will compare you with your man. They don't call you a missus. They will call you a mister to give you a high price that you're doing great just as a man. That's why nowadays we were thinking, why should we compare ourselves to a man while man is the standard to compare it? That's why we try were thinking why should we compare ourselves to a man, why man is the standard to comparing. That's why we try not to emphasize the gender. If a group of women make an exhibition, we just call it an exhibition. We would not call it a female artist exhibition because when we put female in front of artists, it's somehow like we try to emphasize our gender to compare with men. We thought we don't have to compare with them. Yes, how my immigration background influenced my art? Yes, I found this is very much deep in the work I'm doing. Actually, why I started to draw villages and later draw artists, atelier and street, it is all because I found here where I'm living at the beginning is where everything to me is so new, so fresh. I don't understand it. I don't know this street, anything. I found that drawing is my language. When I draw, I can come down to slowly observation all the details. So I use the drawing to, how to say, break through and let myself get connection with the new environment I'm living so this is much root root with my art another because I use this super fine line to draw I also thought this is maybe root or connection with traditional Chinese ink painting because we also use this fine line. But this multi-perspective, I will call, I combine the traditional Chinese ink painting because in China we have this long, horizontal painting in ancient time. So like when you, it's like when you take a boat on the river, when the boat is driving, you saw all the wheel, so the perspective is always changing. But meanwhile I also combined with Western, like in Saison and Picasso, they also use this multi-perspective, so I kind of combined the Asian-Chinese perspective and the modern perspective from Western art together. So I try to draw from the multi-perspective. Yes, by lucky actually after finish studying in 2021 by the Artilunius Lins, before I always have a room shared with other PhD students. So if I do big drawing like in two or three meter big one, I draw on the wall in the university. If I do small size like in this 100 by 17 or smaller I draw by a corner in my wong zi ma so I call wong zi ma atelier living room atelier and yes and by lucky in two years before in 2023 I got this Lin Kun's photo room price so I can allow to use this wonderful atelier space for two years. So that's how I, this is my first really atelier space, but I will moving out in November. I'm still thinking if I can finance myself found atelier or maybe I should move back to my own Simba atelier. back to my own atelier. But maybe I will try to apply for some of these GVG or some of these social house projects. I heard if you ask them, some small room, maybe you can get some. Yes, it's not so easy to find a space. That's why if I move back, maybe I will continue back to do some small drawing. About if there's a difference, you work at home or you're working in the atelier, I think, yes, it's quite different. I found if you have a studio to go, like you're leaving home, even it's just in two or three minutes, you will find, okay, this is my working space. Then you will feeling you're really maybe getting more professional artists, or you found this is really working your job place. And also because the studios you is easy to represent your work to the, uh, people visiting here and also freely to do a big size work. Hmm. At home, I always, after joy, I always try to cover it because you eat in front. You don't want the soup come to your art. Although this can also be another kind of art. Success to me is I can spend the time or my life the way however I want and can survive, which is now. I thought if I can continue be an artist I can through art survive a bit and then I continue can produce art and always have some idea good idea which I satisfied with it and I can realize this idea I thought this is quite successful already. But for sure if more people can view my art, I will be very happy.