(29 Mar 2025)
CHINA ART
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Beijing, China – 21 March 2025
1. Wide of Anicka Yi artwork resembling cells, titled “Radiolaria”, at the artist’s first solo show in Asia at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing
2. Various of “Radiolaria”
4. Wide of Anicka Yi’s tempura-based “Biofouled Sculptures” artwork
5. Various close of tempura detail on “Biofouled Sculptures”
6. Various of Anicka Yi’s artwork “The Possibility of an Island III” glass sculpture with contact lenses inside
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anicka Yi, artist:
“You have to take leaps. Having never visited China before, I didn’t do a site visit, mostly because there have been pandemics between when we conceived of the show and now. I really deal with the space a lot, that was incredible. The space is so prominent and what kind of narrative and story we could tell in the space, that was really the sort of ground zero for everything.”
8. Various of corridor at Anicka Yi exhibition
9. Various of Anicka Yi artwork “Table for One (at the sad café)” featuring sealed pearl necklace on chair
10. Various of Anicka Yi artwork “Exaggerate the Little Deaths” with silk flowers inside silicone based frame
11. Various of UCCA curator-at-large and Anicka Yi show curator Peter Eleey speaking to audience
12. Close of audience
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Eleey, UCCA curator-at-large:
“We were thinking about the kinds of spaces that evoke both the isolation and kind of clinical sterility of a laboratory, a hospital, the spaceships of science fiction films, the corporate environments featured in television shows like Westworld, where there’s really a space for study and at the same time kind of separation.”
14. Various of Anicka Yi artwork “Mr. Taxi for GG” featuring tempura fried flowers in plastic raincoat
15. Various of Anicka Yi lightbox and glass artwork “Is Civilization Worth It?”
16. Wide of visitors looking at Anicka Yi kombucha leather artwork “Feeling is a Skill”
17. Close of “Feeling is a Skill” artwork
18. Moving shot of Anicka Yi “Another You” artwork made of glass with depth illusion
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Eleey, UCCA curator-at-large:
“There was something exciting about being able to introduce her work to an audience here, particularly given her range of interests in technology, especially artificial intelligence and the advancements of the last few years and the juxtaposition between American and Chinese technology companies, provided in a way a certain kind of conceptual bridge that she was very excited about addressing here with a Chinese audience, at least as she imagines it.”
20. Various of Anicka Yi artwork “Tempura Fried Flowers”
21. Wide of exhibition visitors
22. Various of Anicka Yi artwork made of seaweed, “Kelp Pods”
23. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Carlie Chang, art curator:
“I felt her expression was very restrained. I got lost in the exhibition. I felt she wanted to critique many things and had a lot to express about organisms and the relationship between organisms and human beings. But even though her language is very stern, it makes people feel a faint and strange intimacy.”
24. Various of Anicka Yi exhibition sign
25. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Ma Hao, art curator:
“A very good exhibition and a very unique exhibition experience. This artist incorporated her love of biology and science into her artistic creations. This interdisciplinary way of working and the content it created was very appealing.”
26. Various of Anicka Yi ice sculpture of Neanderthal heads artworks “Forensics and Cryonics”
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