Tuolihong, Molide

Molide Tuolihong (莫丽德·托里洪), of Kazakh ethnicity, was born in Altay, Xinjiang. She is an artist, curator, and cross-cultural researcher. She currently lives and works in Shanghai. She holds a Master’s degree in Methods and Topics in Arts Management from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. Her primary medium is moving image. She is engaged in a long-term field research project focusing on the mining history, industrial ruins, and intertwined family memories of the Koktokay No. 3 Mine in her hometown. Through her work, she explores the transformations in industrial history and its relationship with ethnic minority societies, while documenting the everyday life of ethnic minority communities. Her practice includes recording scenes of nomadic migration and intergenerational inheritance, communal rituals, and the intimate, inseparable bond between people and nature in this remote northern borderland. She has previously curated several contemporary art projects, including I Love You Too (2020), You Are a River (2023), and Narrated, the Self as the Other (2024). She also participated in the “Culture Moistens Xinjiang” short film project. Her works and research consistently seek to find fissures between grand historical narratives and the micro-level experiences of individual lives, reflecting on the possibilities of expression.