Prompt/ photo of a Chinese lady 35 years old visiting Tate Modern in London wearing Balenciaga with trousers in front of Anish Kapoor's installation, ultrarealistic, 8k, straight long black hair, with glasses, show full body with legs
Statements
Yao Yichun is an artist exploring and experiencing human emotions, perceptions, relationships, trust and control in the virtual high-tech environment, experiencing and questioning what effects could AI, algorithm, big data, internet bring to our emotions and relationships. In Communication, she made a text-based silent short film, to create a psychological tension between two lovers behind mobile screens. Yao likes to use different mediums, as well as herself to examine all the questions. Yao works with Installation, performance, sound, video, texts, photography, apps and internet.
We are trained to feel what we should feel, we are manipulated to do what we should do, the violence of technology changes social relations between people, also changes human thoughts. We are monitored and manipulated by this new form of power. Nevertheless, technology is not the only factor that influences perception or patterns of perception, the specific application or aesthetic use of a technology also leads to the reorganization of our sensory perception and changes of our relationships.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Shanghai Youth Art Fair 2024, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2024 Canal Dream Art Festival 2024, Regent’s Canal, Kings Cross, London, UK
2024 Replica Avatar Doppelganger, Flight Mode, Koppel Collective Gallery, London, UK
2023 Replica Avatar Doppelganger
2023 The Exphygit Corpse, TheWrong Biennale
2023 Mother Tongue, Millbank Tower, London, UK
2023 Graduation Show, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2023 Group Show, Weatherbys Private Bank, London, UK
2023 (Site-specific) Common People, St Saviour’s Church, London, UK
2023 The Fuckin’ Show Man!, Chelsea Gallery, London, UK
2023 It’s the little things, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2023 Parallel Festival, CVA Gallery, Hongkong, China
2023 Parallel Festival, Chelsea Gallery, London, UK
2022 -Ing, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2022 Unrealised Ideas, London, UK
2022 Lables, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2022 One Thing Always Lead To Another, London, UK
2022 Departure Lounge, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2015 Ephemeral, WE@BUND, Shanghai, China
2008 New Photography in China, City Festival, Hong kong, China
2006 1800-0600, Epson Imaging Gallery Epsite Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2006 Outlook Art and Design, Super Grand Mall, Shanghai, China
2005 Streetsnaps, Room with a View Gallery, Shanghai, China
Publications & Awards
Canal Dream Art Festival 2024, Shortlisted
Ippawards Honorable Mentions 2017
3030: New Photography in China, Paperback, October 2010, p. 168-171.
Outlook Art and Design, Supergrand Mall, Shanghai, China, p. 76-77.
Shanghai 1800-0600, Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, January, 2006, p 22-25
Performances, Residency & Workshops
2023 Performance: IaskAIaski, Adema International Art Week, Mallorce, Spain
2023 Internet Art Experiment Workshop, Adema International Art Week, Mallorce, Spain
2022 Sound Visualization Workshop, Parallel Festival, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2016 Art Poster Workshop, Réel, Shanghai, China
2016 Cut & Paste Art Poster Workshop, City Square, Shanghai, China
Education
MFA, Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design (UAL)
BA, Art and Design, China Academy of Art
yaoyichun.yao@gmail.com