Zichen Yin

Zichen Yin(b.2000) is an artist, researcher and curator, currently based in London.

In a multidisciplinary fluid identity working with different kinds of mediums, her practice interrogates topics such as geopolitics, (self-)orientalism, cultural identity, and narrative construction by inspecting the glitches pervasive in various kinds of records. Her works often present a juxtaposition of real and fictional archives, by reading against narration about history and specific topics through "critical fabulation" to establish interconnections between marginalized subjects, retrieving their absent stories.

Education:

BA: Curating, Central Academy of Fine Arts

MA: Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art

Trends are transcendental. They pass through historical moments and connect them to the continuity of the flow. Trends will continue to move forward through history, seeking further expression in the same heightened flux.

The ship of Theseus in front of us is endowed with more space than the objectively possessed space has, more appropriately, in following the expansion of our inner space. The ocean is a whole, its thoughts, memories, and dreams fused together, along the lines of history - conquest, past - collective memory, present - our present moment, it opens to the future. No medium of any kind can fully capture the truth. The conquerors will write about the body of the other and draw from it their own history. We may have never really been historians, but as poets of our time, our emotions can perhaps only be translated by the poetry of the past.

I just want to walk on an earth that has never been mapped.

Medium:

Mixed Medium

Size:

Variable

In the narrative form of a letter, this work presents a poetic meditation on the fleeting nature of our experiences. Through the use of found footage and a self-written poem, it evokes a sense of nostalgia, loss, and inevitability, while also inviting viewers to reflect on how the spaces around us shape our perception.