Synopsis
At night I dream of color.
Some dreams I dream in colour.
My colour dreams I REMEMBER.
This one from thirty years ago…
——Derek Jarman, 1994
Zhu Yunyi
Zhu Yunyi is a Chinese artist whose practice questions memory and perception. He graduated from Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, he works based on the combination of a series of personal experiences relating to the uses of some of our underestimated senses in the field of art, such as touch, and the questions of memory. He transforms these experiences and memories into works by various approaches of mediums.
Director's statement
On the afternoon of September 22nd, 2023, sunny, in the Summer Palace, in the glowing, colorful Kunming Lake Tilda Swinton and I were on a boat talking about Jarman’s garden, his last film Blue, and the poem Chroma, which he wrote around the same time.
