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葉竹妍





Born in Zhejiang, China and living between China, Taiwan and Chicago, Zhuyan Ye walks around the marginal spaces of the cities she has lived in. While engaged with the people in these spaces and communities, she tests the relationship between their bodies and their chairs. When a person sits on the chair, their body becomes the shape of the chair. If the chair is in its own intimate space, it can move around freely. If the chair is in a position of power, it is difficult to move. She is drawn to people’s agency facing their gentrified personal spaces.


Ye makes images and sound, performs and writes to respond her experiences in the rapid development of China's urban construction and geopolitics in East Asia. She talks back into time in an absolute discontinuity while working to develop alternative structures of communication. The ideal space for her is porous, air flowing and changing or allowed to change. She witnesses the movement from daily objects and performs as the objects. She accepts illness and death numbly and disciplines them into writing and pictorial memory. In the forms of installation, performance and autoethnography documentary, Ye is currently working on an on-going project "chair practice". Ye received Master of Fine Arts in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. She has been accepted in different residency programs: Ox-Bow's Longform Residency, CPS Lives 2022-2023 Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts and NARS International Residency Program.






                                                                                                   
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