Yuyan Wang
One thousand and one attempts to be an ocean - Film - 11min - 2020
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 22
Film
One thousand and one attempts to be an ocean corresponds primarily to a rhythm, a hypnotic resonance that makes images burst out of their content to become sensation and energy. Made up of micro-events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to both trance and minimal music. To the point of exhaustion, the images incarnate this desire for a groundless wave, as expressions of an oceanic feeling blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.
Intention
The desire to incarnate the ocean expresses one of the strongest feelings of our time. To produce waves is to make mechanisms to generate a physical and psychological rhythm, affirming the emotional need to synchronize ourselves with our environment. The ambition of the project is to produce a hypnotic visual tension. The multiplication of motifs leads to an entanglement that widens the definition of the wave and opens up an entropic poetics - the immutable disorder of our lives versus the precise organization of reality. As a manual for prosthetic devices, I use these technologies to understand how to be an ocean.
Yuyan Wang
Born in 1989, Yuyan Wang is currently a student at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains. She has a degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (2012) and another from the Beaux-arts de Paris (2016), cum laude. Her often immersive multimedia projects move between video, performance and installation. Among the diverse subjects that inspire her work are horror films, the culture of wellness, pseudo-sciences and the banality of everyday life. She subtly displaces existing forms and attempts to reframe the contemporary systems designed to induce optimistic states using an abstraction that deconstructs them.
