Haotian Lin was born in 2000 in Jiaxing, China. He studied film at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, expecting to complete his studies at the School of Media and Communication (BFA). His exchange experience rendered him a stay in Paris for eight months in 2022 at Sciences Po Paris. He is now a master's student at the University of Cambridge, dedicated to politics and its externalisation in visual arts, especially photography and documentary filmmaking.
The town he was born in is Pinghu, which stands at the borderline between Zhejiang Province and Shanghai, the 'Magic City'. For him, the road to Shanghai seems to be a movable ethnography. In a peripheral region, wilderness, suburbanites, construction sites and skyscrapers encounter. His observation as a flâneur departs from this sensation. His artwork thus gives a constant regard for issues like migration, periphery regions, and ethnic identities.
