Yuyan Wang is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her hybridised approach to filmmaking blends archival montage with algorithmic editing and vaporous sound design to produce quasi-informational affective works that operate as both socio-political critique and immersive sensory experiences. Using imagery drawn from industrial and ecological spheres, Wang recontextualises mass-produced and natural forms to unsettle prescribed narratives of extraction, production, and waste.
Central to Wang’s practice is a concern with how we metabolise overwhelming volumes of visual information. In making her work, she describes the physical intensity of consuming, processing, and re-presenting the digital landscape that saturates everyday life. Through an associative visual logic her works make perceptible the contemporary condition of being overwhelmed by social, political, and technological forces that that exceed our cognitive grasp.
Yuyan Wang’s work has been showcased at Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo, Paris; UCCA Beijing; the 12th Berlin Biennale; 15th Gwangju Biennale, and various festivals, such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMa Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards.
