ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
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YUYAN WANG
In residency from April 20 to July 26, 2022
Born in 1989 in China. Lives and works in Paris (FR).
Yuyan Wang's work oscillates between film and installation, often taking an immersive perspective. Her works focus on the mutation of elementary materials and examine the industrial production chain of images with its endless development towards an abstraction of reality. Beyond the transcription of hypnotic atmospheres generated by omnipresent media, her projects portray alienating industrial labor, revealing how the mechanical and repetitive relationship provokes workers into a state close to trance. Poetic and political, her approach aims to radiograph modern productivism's mutations since the beginning of the 21st century. Her practice of image recycling is a form of detournement regarding the economy of attention.
Yuyan Wang graduated in 2020 from Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains and in 2016 from Beaux-arts de Paris. Her films have been selected in numerous festivals, such as Berlinale International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, IndieLisboa Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Documenta Madrid...She received the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tirana International Film Festival, the Young Talent Award at Netzhaut Ton Film Festival, the Jury Prize at Videoformes Digital Arts Festival, and the Jury Prize at Poitiers Film Festival.
