"Making art allows me to make sense of the world and myself."--Shizico Yi
Dr. Shizico Yi is a London based artist, working on installations, films and paintings; the documentary nature of her work often concerns about the loss, repetition, the everyday subject and memories . With design and film background, Shizico combines her interests making installation projects which relate to artist's personal life in relation to the society and human condition at large.
Shizico Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art awarded by UEL, UK 2017; she had completed a Master in Fine Art with a BA in Womenswear from UAL. London. She is also the Winner of Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition 2013 Los Angels. USA.
Shizico Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art awarded by UEL, UK 2017; she had completed a Master in Fine Art with a BA in Womenswear from UAL. London. She is also the Winner of Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition 2013 Los Angels. USA.
Shizico Yi's work aims to explore artistic obsession through repetitive documentation of the domestic and the everyday.
Yi uses photography, large-scale installations, moving image projections, and two-dimensional visual images (paintings, drawings, and prints) to articulate her relationship to family and memories, and time.
Yi uses photography, large-scale installations, moving image projections, and two-dimensional visual images (paintings, drawings, and prints) to articulate her relationship to family and memories, and time.
Time is the essence of Yi's work. With Yi's unique ways of working through various materials, she wishes to fundamentally understand what time means to humans and memories.
Through working on various materials, Yi creates her unique visual language in film, sculpture, and 2D images applying them to her environmental installation, which tells the stories of the time.
For example, in Yi's sculpture, she deals with casting resin and its transformative character when cured, which brings time into form; Yi also uses photography and drawing to give evidence of time. They are the world's landscape in her eyes; each picture or each line of the drawing shows her observation of this synthetic time and world. Yi also experiments with time-lapse, stop-motion, one-shot cameras, and long-period documentaries in films to describe time.
Through working on various materials, Yi creates her unique visual language in film, sculpture, and 2D images applying them to her environmental installation, which tells the stories of the time.
For example, in Yi's sculpture, she deals with casting resin and its transformative character when cured, which brings time into form; Yi also uses photography and drawing to give evidence of time. They are the world's landscape in her eyes; each picture or each line of the drawing shows her observation of this synthetic time and world. Yi also experiments with time-lapse, stop-motion, one-shot cameras, and long-period documentaries in films to describe time.
Over the last decade, Yi created a series of large-scale installations which project moving images onto sculptural surfaces and natural objects. The projected videos are made from Yi's documentary photos and video footage archive.
For her two-dimensional works, Yi creates a series of drawings, diptychs, and polytypic paintings, which develop from her daily drawing project. Most of her works are worked in series, and each project is developed over a long period.
For her two-dimensional works, Yi creates a series of drawings, diptychs, and polytypic paintings, which develop from her daily drawing project. Most of her works are worked in series, and each project is developed over a long period.
The most significant resource for Yi's works is her life experience and the culture clash of the east-meets-west. She takes inspiration from her culture, background, memories, and a traumatised childhood.
Art practice allows her to bring new energy to the burden of memories and to deal with loss. Although the content of her work seems personal, the loss is a universal human experience. Yi believes artists' ultimate responsibility is to reveal universal truths through exploring their lives and experiences.
When asked why did audiences have to be made to suffer through the three hours of his film Andrei Rublev (1966), Tarkovsky wrote in his diary :
'It's because the twentieth century has been the rise of a kind of emotional inflation….there are some artists who do make us feel the true measure of things. It is a burden which they carry throughout their lives, and we must be thankful to them.' (Tarkovsky, 1994: 9, entry 1st Sep 1970)
Art practice allows her to bring new energy to the burden of memories and to deal with loss. Although the content of her work seems personal, the loss is a universal human experience. Yi believes artists' ultimate responsibility is to reveal universal truths through exploring their lives and experiences.
When asked why did audiences have to be made to suffer through the three hours of his film Andrei Rublev (1966), Tarkovsky wrote in his diary :
'It's because the twentieth century has been the rise of a kind of emotional inflation….there are some artists who do make us feel the true measure of things. It is a burden which they carry throughout their lives, and we must be thankful to them.' (Tarkovsky, 1994: 9, entry 1st Sep 1970)
Many artists are obsessive in their way, for instance: Kusama's obsession with self- obliteration, Tarkovsky's obsession with his childhood memories, Hatoum's obsession with exploring the conflicts and contradictions of our world, On Kawara's obsession with the four decades in which he made Date Paintings. Shizico Yi's obsession might be to find the order in day-to-day living, to seal memories by documenting mundane moments, and ultimately to leave traces of her own existence.
* Shizico Yi, as a curator and founder of no barking aRt
Since 2013, other than the studio practice, Shizico Yi is also working on a not-for-profit art project to curate exhibitions and publish art magazines to feature and support independent artists. This curatorial project helped more than 140 artists worldwide to exhibit in professional galleries in central London and was viewed by tens of thousands. As the founder of this not-for-profit art project, she continues to run the project throughout her career, along with studio practice. Yi believes that life is as much about giving as receiving; being an artist means mostly living in isolation in a studio to work; by devoting a part of an artist's life, helping other artists is her way of balancing the artist's role in our society.
Since 2013, other than the studio practice, Shizico Yi is also working on a not-for-profit art project to curate exhibitions and publish art magazines to feature and support independent artists. This curatorial project helped more than 140 artists worldwide to exhibit in professional galleries in central London and was viewed by tens of thousands. As the founder of this not-for-profit art project, she continues to run the project throughout her career, along with studio practice. Yi believes that life is as much about giving as receiving; being an artist means mostly living in isolation in a studio to work; by devoting a part of an artist's life, helping other artists is her way of balancing the artist's role in our society.
Latest Solo Exhibition [ loss, repetition + the everyday]- The 3rd in a series of annual exhibitions in Brewhouse Gallery, curated by Freeny Yianni of Close ltd. may - jul 2018 Taunton. UK.
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GSY StudioGSY Studio is the brainchild of Shizico's creative energy, and it has run a design studio [ Gloria Shizico Yi ] and an art-charity project [ no barking aRt ] since 2013
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[ Favor Cottage Garden Project ]Constant Gardener is an ongoing project in memory of Favor, her beloved dog son. Started in 2015, it is a project of making a garden for then 14 years old ill Favor to recover. Shizu lost her beloved dog-son to Wobbler Syndrome after four years of battle with this neurology disease.
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