Dai Xianjing combines multiple methods such as moving images, photos, text, documentary and explores herself through art creation. She cares about the female, the urbanization and the nature, and uses one single core as the thread throughout her work. That core lies in her interest to investigate “relationships” —— those between a person and the self, between a person and others, and between a person and all beings in the world. She has gradually formed an aesthetic language that is characteristic of her, and the use of colour has become a critical medium of expression for Dai. In her work, she firmly centers on her own personal questioning and sensibility, and constantly breaks the boundary of her life and art creation. At a time full of uncertainty, she presents the intimacy and contingency between individuals and the world, the contemporary imagery they collectively form, and the eternity found within this imagery.

In 2016, Dai Xianjing starts her Women at Home project, comprised of documentary, photography and texts. This project looks closely at the Chinese women living alone in big cities and presents the multi-faceted condition of their life and relationship status, and presents a collective empathy and sense of belonging.

Her photography oeuvre includes Trees Whisper (2012-ongoing), Whatever New York (2016), Forbidden Time (2018), Faded Gold (2014-2019). Spanning over 10 years, documenting the world’s spectacle has become her way to explore territories of the unfamiliar. She finds a thought-provoking and timeless way of writing and expressing in director photography.

In 2018，she publishes her first photo-book Whatever New York, the first in her “placesplaces” photo-book series.

In 2020, she starts expanding Women at Home project to the form of a series of documentary films and her roles involved include Co-Producer, Director and General Planning Lead. In March 2021, the first season of Women at Home documentary debuts live on Tencent Video.

In 2022, Dai Xianjing’s first solo exhibition of her photography artwork opens in Beijing.