Hu Longxiang (b. 1999, Hunan, China) graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA (2021) and Royal College of Art, MA Painting (2023). Hu Longxiang's aesthetic creation is rooted in exploring the intersection of visual experience and material culture, emphasizing the texture of movies and the folk ethics and spiritual significance contained in the daily objects of folk groups. Currently, Hu Longxiang focuses on researching new folk culture, mainly guided by material transformation, layered narrative and dimensional adjustment. Hu Longxiang's research project deeply expands the constructiveness of individual material culture related to folklore, that is, how material memory and folk narratives serve as a symbolic information mediation system in integrating emerging culture and cultural heritage. This research framework aims to carry out cross-contextual cultural translation through multiple types of material selection and narrative models while retaining the classical tradition and deriving sufficient narrative space for contemporary aesthetic dialectics. This can avoid falling into the cultural dilemma of fundamentalism when absorbing classical traditions and be wary of the excessive erosion of local aesthetics and even cultural orientations by other ideologies when accepting foreign cultures.