In the project, I combine the medium of photography and sculptures to create both photographic and sculptural assemblage. I use fleshy Sculpey clay to build up altered and fragmented bodies as my subjects, aiming to create a dialogue between the ambiguous nature of the objects and the space depicted in photographs- photography is the pictorial representation of mental states.
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In the project, I combine the medium of photography and sculptures to create both photographic and sculptural assemblage. I use fleshy Sculpey clay to build up altered and fragmented bodies as my subjects, aiming to create a dialogue between the ambiguous nature of the objects and the space depicted in photographs- photography is the pictorial representation of mental states.
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A cactus
in the Chimney
Project Description
Gut Feeling
03.08/24- 03.20/24
NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY)
Project Description
Gut Feeling explores the interplay between body and objects, physical and psychological landscapes through photography and photographic collages. Yi Hsuan uses discarded materials and her body to create assemblages for two-and three-dimensional photographs. The work's visceral and ephemeral quality mirrors the body's fluidity, complexities of self-identity, and Otherness. Materiality sparks a dialogue between tangible sensibility and tactile ambiguity in a space. Her work traverses construction and deconstruction, animate and inanimate, revaluing one-time-use materials into bodily and otherworldly representations.
