Royal College of Art - MA Contemporary Art Practice
2022 - 2023
Royal College of Art - MA Digital Direction
2017 - 2021 Communucation University of China - BA Theatre and Performance Design
with Distinction degree
About
‘I adore the color of milk, yet find no love for its taste. I'm drawn to dizziness, but shun the piercing light. Observing crowds brings me delight, but unbridled proximity, fright. I savor delicate words, but find language amiss. In the park, I stroll and find solace, but in two, I recoil. At times, I find words to be sufficiently good, Yet oftentimes, they fall short, misunderstood. If my works could stand as my true introduction, Then, perhaps, you'd truly find me...’
Yigo (b.1999) lives and works in Beijing and London.
A multidisciplinary artist, creating in writing, sculpture, performance, and moving images.
Yigo’s works explore traumatic memories and transient moments in life. She tries to portray human vulnerability, and examine identity and intimacy. They are always about 'love', 'loss', 'death' and 'memories'. She works in multiple media and weaves narratives of her private experience and others through a combination of performance, writing, sculpture, moving image and installation. By capturing subtle fragments, intimacy and public, reality and fiction, boundaries between art and life are blurred.
Her works are visceral and always begin with writing. It is done in unconsciousness, daze and wanderings, in which time and memory are chronic, detached and fermenting.
Exhibition Experience
- ‘TATE Modern Late, Radio and Film: Montez Press Radio x RCA CAP
Broadcast and Screening’, Tate Modern, Blavatnik Building Level 4, London SE1 9TG, 26 Apr. 2024
- ‘Story Tell’ at The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE, 2 Apr. 2024
- ‘CAP cinema’ at Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4UJ, 28 Mar. 2024
- ‘Everything Must Go’, The Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London, 8 Feb. - 10 Feb. 2024
- ‘Peripheral Attention’, Pending Space(MA Contemporary Art Practice), 2F Studio Building, Royal College of Art, London,
30 Jan. - 7 Feb. 2024
- ‘Time Bifurcates Forever And Leads To Countless Futures’, The former site of Lanting Primary School in Miaoxi Town, Wuxing Village, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, 1 Feb. - 1 Apr. 2024
- ‘Great sounds seeks silence, Great form appears shapeless', St. James’ Hatcham Church, Goldsmiths University of London, London, 24 Nov. - 30 Nov. 2023
- ‘Flouze for Tamaloukte’ Fundraising art event, Royal George, London, Oct. 2023
- ‘Intertwine’ Royal College of Art - Digital Direction Graduation showcase, Kensington Gore, London, Jul. 2023
- 7th OPEN International Juried art Competition, Finalist Award, 2023
- ‘Lonely Machine’ experimental theatre and live performance, 798 Art Centre - Caijin Gallery, Costume Design, Beijing, 2021
- ‘Life,Space,Time and Human’ digital installation (Team work) in Beijing Contemporary Art Expo, Beijing, 2021
- Berlin Theatre Festival ‘Play Market’ Project - ‘Das Knurren der Milchstraße’ live performance, 798 Art Centre - Beijing Goethe Institute, Stage and performance design, Beijing, 2020
- University Student Journalist Festival Awards Gala, Communication University of China, Stage Design Director, Beijing, 2019
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The 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the School TV Station and University Student Journalist Festival Activities, Communication University of China, Stage Design Director, Beijing, 2018
