Wenjie Yu

Wenjie Yu is an artist who pays attention to the contradictions, conflicts and connections between individuals and the world. He likes to think about simple things which nevertheless have deep meanings in daily life. As a young man who views the world with both with suspicion and innocence, he criticises the world in his pungent but humorous way. He is keen to create a unique experience for his audience by opening a continuing dialogue with his work. Aside from the outside world, he is also an artist who dedicates to exploring human beings’ self-consciousness. Through his own explorations he finds experimental ways to express what he discovers in human life, and always loves to hit the audiences with a new thought.

Sound art, installation, performance, painting, and video are all his media. He combined history and future in a leap way, showing that the present is both past and future. His inspiration system is huge and complex, so it is difficult to detect a specific clue of inspiration in his artwork. He is a mixed and complicated artist, and good at translating objects from his spiritual world directly to the real world by his artworks.

He makes absolute honesty and courage in art as his first priority. All his artworks are derived from his personal feelings and personal responses to the world. So, ironic humour always existing in his work. He has his own views on art and art itself. He is not afraid of challenge all the existing rules in the art world.He is changing every day while stable in his principles. and ”Not being changed by the world is actually changing the world.” He believes.