Yuting Deng(贝瑞基因）
About
Yuting Deng,Born 1997,China
Lives and works in London currently
An observer
A rebel
An artist sometimes
Doubt while being in awe of reality.
My practice is situated upon the faultline between the private, domestic realm and its wider socioeconomic context.Mainly through installations, sculpture, moving images and text, focusing on the chaos of human emotions and the lack of spirituality.
Most of the creative inspiration is about 'translation' and ‘distortion’. Fascinated by semiotics and graphics,dealing with reality in a subversive and dark way.
2021-2023 MA Information Experience Design,RCA (UK)
2016-2020 BA Communication,Communication University of China（CN）
Statement
WELCOME TO MY STRANGE-LAND:)
I like to explore life forms' uncertainty, complexity, and vulnerability with all physical objects that combine aesthetics and mechanics.
The central threads that have developed in my artistic practice all point to my identity as an ‘East Asian female’ who is constantly crossing different continents. My practice is often with humanity at its very core - including its feelings, desires, and fears, focusing on making physical objects a philosophical and emotional response to contemporary life. I am interested in the relationship between the individual and the collective, and often speak about broader themes in relation to my own experiences, focusing on the relationship between migration and belonging, alienation and fragmentation, and the resilience and fragility of the body.
In a world that is becoming increasingly fragmented, unstable, and incoherent, where human beings (collective actors) are often placed into an unsettling movement, how to deal with mobility, resilience, boundaries, and loss is a theme we have to think about. By altering the scale and using unexpected materials to construct narratives, the viewer is provoked to re-imagine not only the function of objects but also the spaces they create, further reflecting and gaining insight into our position in a world of violent opposing forces and conflicting ideologies
Abstraction is therefore the primary language in my work, emotion is a grammar and metaphor is my preferred method. I tend to let my work exist in an incomplete, fluid, metamorphic state, alluding to movement without revealing the end, encouraging people to rethink everyday life and the human condition, aims to engage the viewer “in a physical, sensual, maybe even emotional way
<IN BETWEEN>
<IN-between> is a sculptural installation that explores the issue of balance in living systems through three key components 'the container’, ‘bodily landscape’, and ’the balance journey’ , where the characteristics of the materials used and the manufacturing process are fundamental parameters of the design process. Aesthetics and mechanics are synthesized in the structural design to produce a constructive situation through structural intuition. Each component, the texture of the material, carries with it a hint of importance. The language of the body and the pure properties of the material together form a new metaphorical system that allows one to associate the human form. By physically presenting the inner thinking-emotional activity, it somehow 'suggests' that in a globalized marketplace, human beings (collective actors) are not only symbolic, but actually 'suspended' in their disturbing actions - as if a tragedy is about to happen, but it doesn't. Our lives fluctuate repeatedly between tension and stillness, order and chaos, fragility and resilience...
The viewer is invited to experience this precarious balance and uncertain condition by watching. Vulnerability and resilience become key concepts for re-imagining the human and ecological condition when fluidity and foresight are the only way to go. I hope it evokes our physical senses to the greatest extent possible through 'intense materiality', inspiring reflection on our place in a world of violent opposing forces and conflicting ideologies
How resilient can a broken body really be? We are relying on strong self-control to keep our lives in the balance, and We must make peace with ourselves:)
Medium: sculpture&installation
Size: varies
3D Rendings of installation
Medium: 3D
Size: adjustable
Plaster casting pillow
Medium: plaster casting
<IN BETWEEN>-Mind archive
《In-between》—a genre-bending archive of the mind.It is a complement to the physical installation and functions equally as a tension responding to it.
In my daily fragmentary writing, I try to have a dialogue with myself, trying to imagine and constantly allowing myself to overcome this overwhelming feeling of modern society - the sense of dislocation and being lost, the constant search for a point of balance in the face of life's impermanence and fragility. This brokenness and resilience is present throughout the archive, which I see as a space constructed by another me, feeling my body trapped in an attempt to find an exit, although in the process, it always ends in failure, but I try to spread this brutal experience with a humorous tone that does not take itself seriously, thereby stealing the audience's empathy
Come on, Open it and you can hear me roaring:!
Medium: book