VR tour -mobile Exhibition View 2017 ( scroll down for desktop version)
"Making art allows me to make sense of the world and of myself."--Shizico Yi
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.
This exhibition, Loss, Repetition and the Everyday 2017 (accompany to her essay for Prof. Doctorate in Fine Art) presents a collection of drawings and large-scale 3D installations telling stories of an imaginative world which is inspired from her real life; the installations bring viewers into their own imaginative space to connect with their own life experiences.
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 dealing with loss. Although the content of her work seems personal, 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 own 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. Shizuco Yi's obsession might be to find the order in day to day living, to seal memories by documenting mundane moments, ultimately to leave traces of her own existence.
In her years of the Doctorate, Yi had been created a series of large-scale installations which project moving images onto sculptural surfaces and real objects. The projected videos are developed from Yi's documentary photos and video-footage archive. In these films she experiments with time-lapse, stop-motion, one-shot camera and long-period of documentary film.
For her two dimensional works, Yi creates series of diptych and polytypic paintings which develop from her ‘date paintings’ and drawings.
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. In these Professional Doctorate years, her curatorial project helped numerous UEL colleagues alongside 140 artists around the world to exhibit in professional galleries in central London.
She continues this professional practice throughout her career along with an ongoing studio practice.
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.
This exhibition, Loss, Repetition and the Everyday 2017 (accompany to her essay for Prof. Doctorate in Fine Art) presents a collection of drawings and large-scale 3D installations telling stories of an imaginative world which is inspired from her real life; the installations bring viewers into their own imaginative space to connect with their own life experiences.
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 dealing with loss. Although the content of her work seems personal, 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 own 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. Shizuco Yi's obsession might be to find the order in day to day living, to seal memories by documenting mundane moments, ultimately to leave traces of her own existence.
In her years of the Doctorate, Yi had been created a series of large-scale installations which project moving images onto sculptural surfaces and real objects. The projected videos are developed from Yi's documentary photos and video-footage archive. In these films she experiments with time-lapse, stop-motion, one-shot camera and long-period of documentary film.
For her two dimensional works, Yi creates series of diptych and polytypic paintings which develop from her ‘date paintings’ and drawings.
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. In these Professional Doctorate years, her curatorial project helped numerous UEL colleagues alongside 140 artists around the world to exhibit in professional galleries in central London.
She continues this professional practice throughout her career along with an ongoing studio practice.
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