Yue Qi, about to graduate from Royal College of Art, is a contemporary jewellery artist based in China. Her interest lies in creating objects to embody her inner world, and communicate her emerging feelings, her emotions, her needs of the world in which she lives and with whom she interacts. With her pieces she dives into interpersonal relationships, consciousness, the subconscious, emotional perception and memory, exploring the depths of the soul, meanwhile allowing materials to blend naturally into the environment and constantly change with the uncertainties of the outside world.
Yue Qi
Yue QI, born in 1998, is a contemporary artist who has been exploring areas relevant to the subconscious, surrealism, emotional perception etc. With her pieces, she dives into the relationships between consciousness, the subconscious, intuition and the human body via absurd shots and colors. With films and contemporary jewellery, her favourite art media, she successfully documents the lucid dream, in which the dreamer remains conscious and has partial control over his or her actions.
Yue divides the lucid dream into three stages: rapid eye movement, consciousness intervention, and the control and termination of the dream, with three large-scale installations to represent the stages respectively.
The first stage is rapid eye movement. In the usual state of unconscious dream, often will one experience a sudden acceleration in falling, with the brain slowly losing consciousness. That’s the starting point when one actually enters the dream. The material of the jewelry installation, the solid metal, symbolizes the unconscious in the dream, which seems to have an invisible power threatening to control one’s body: it enters water, marking the moment when one enters the dream, and dragging one deep into an unconscious dream.
In the second stage, one enters a half-awake state of weightlessness with the intervention of consciousness. Imagining the weightlessness to be the feeling of floating on water, Yue made an inflatable jewelry installation, which saves one to the surface of the water as one’s body falls into it and is sinking to the bottom. Its control over the body symbolizes the control in a lucid dream, due to consciousness intervention, preventing one from utterly slipping into the uncontrollable dream and the thorough unconscious.
Stage three: the control and termination of the dream. At the end of the weaving process, the end of the string of the woven installation is kept to ensure one’s control over the termination of the dream. The unwinding process of dragging the string out of the installation symbolizes one’s control over part of his or her behavior in the dream.
Apart from the above，Yue recreates her works via photographs and films, applying the visual technique of surrealism in the choice of scenes and colors. Modified by bidirectional color and the overlay of color gradient layer, her works echo the overall tone of her project the lucid dream.
The lucid dream –
The dreamer and the metal ring, sway and fall from the swing successively, entering the unconscious dream. The transparent inflatable installation, representing consciousness, appears before being washed away by seawater, leaving the dreamer on land, to represent consciousness intervention prevents the entry of unconscious dream. The dragging of the string shows the control, while stopping it means the end. The string returns to its original state, similar to what happens in a lucid dream.
Do what the first person is doing in the third person perspective.
The theme of the project is the lucid dream, in which the dreamer remains conscious and has partial control over his or her action.
Yue divides the lucid dream into three stages: rapid eye movement, consciousness intervention, and the control and termination of the dream, with three large-scale installations to represent the stages respectively.
The first stage is rapid eye movement. In the usual state of unconscious dream, often will one experience a sudden acceleration in falling, with the brain slowly losing consciousness. That’s the starting point when one actually enters the dream. The material of the jewelry installation, the solid metal, symbolizes the unconscious in the dream, which seems to have an invisible power threatening to control the body: it enters water, marking the moment when one enters the dream, and dragging one deep into an unconscious dream.
Medium:
Stainless SteelSize:
145cm×140cm×100cm
Eyes do lie
- In the second stage, one enters a half-awake state of weightlessness with the intervention of consciousness. Imagining the weightlessness to be the feeling of floating on water, Yue made an inflatable jewelry installation, which saves one to the surface of the water as one’s body falls into it and is sinking to the bottom. Its control over the body symbolizes the control in a lucid dream, due to consciousness intervention, preventing one from utterly slipping into the uncontrollable dream and the thorough unconscious.
Medium:
PVCSize:
145cm×140cm×100cm
The invisible can be visible, the unobvious can be obvious
- Stage three: the control and termination of the dream. At the end of the weaving process, the end of the string of the woven installation is kept to ensure one’s control over the termination of the dream. The unwinding process of dragging the string out of the installation symbolizes one’s control over part of his or her behavior in the dream.
Medium:
Transparent elastic stringSize:
145cm×140cm×100cm
