Experimental Communication
Yayuan Xue
Yayuan Xue is a visual artist and graphic designer based in Beijing. Her work focuses on objects as carriers of meanings and their participatory potential for audiences. She often uses subtle poetic gestures to offer complex emotional responses to experiences of contemporary life.
Education:
2012-2016, Visual Communication, Central Academy of Fine Arts, BA
2018-2020, Experimental Communication, Royal College of Art, MA
Exhibitions:
2020, New Genres Performance & Lecture: X+Y=Z, The Rotunda, London
2019, The Reader: p.3 - p.177, Tenderbooks, London
2017, PETA Bear Card for Freedom Art Exhibition, Yi Dian Space 798 Art Zone, Beijing
2016, The Start of A Long Journey, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing
2016, I Will Be Your Eyes, Art+ Shanghai Gallery
2016, #100—Departure without Arriving was collected by CAFA Art Museum
2016, First Prize of Central Academy of Fine Arts Undergraduate Graduation Design
Yayuan's art practice focuses on the relationship between the individual and society, integrating her own experiences from the perspective of a third person. She is interested in the emotional connections between people and objects, creating participatory works that use a poetic logic. Notions of time and place are key ideas within her practice, seeing the works as a form for ‘materialised time’. Working across installation, photography, video, performance and sculpture, she chooses the most appropriate medium to communicate each idea.
It Rains
It Rains — This work is collected the API (application programming interface) through the Internet every minute, and the speakers corresponding to the raining city will sound the rain in real-time. At every hour, all sounds will play, all cities will rain together.
It Rains_experimental version 2-1
It Rains_experimental version 2-2
It Rains II — It Rains, performed as part of the New Genres performance & lecture series at The Rotunda, London
As the words say, "No one is an island", every drop of rain is worth being listened to.
