Wang Yuyan
WANG Yuyan, born in 1989 in China and currently based in Paris, is a filmmaker and video artist. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within the digital frameworks and representations. Through the editing process, WANG deconstructs and recontextualizes the intricate hierarchies and inherent meanings in materials —whether found, processed, and produced—striping symbols of their conventional paths of perception and turning them into immersive sensory experiences.
Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA Beijing, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMa Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards.
Director's statement
In 2018, China announced plans to launch three artificial moons to provide continuous illumination to major cities, blurring the lines between day and night. The concept of perpetual visibility has manifested differently through glowing screens and lighting devices that constantly illuminate our surroundings, becoming extensions of our physical and mental selves.
In my modest way, I aim to capture a slice of this epic narrative, bringing it into a microcosm under the soft glow of our technosphere. I seek to depict, from an intimate perspective, a portrait of a couple pursuing the digital glow, embracing the eternal light in the gradually vanishing darkness. This is also a letter to our opaque, fragile bodies trapped in a time obsessed with constant visibility, transparency, and efficiency.
