YUELIN LI
INFO
Yuelin is drawn to crafting automata that emotionally engage audiences. The creative process starts by exploring the movement between objects, considering each movement and action as transferable emotion. From there, each object meticulously takes shape through the construction of anthropomorphic mechanical objects, automata, carefully made to evoke personal connections between the viewer and the work. Using aged recycled metals with minimal shifts in color to construct the body and then animating the objects with technology, aim to create spaces for silent dialogues and heightened perception and reflections. Yuelin is drawn to crafting automata that emotionally engage audiences. The creative process starts by exploring the movement between objects, considering each movement and action as transferable emotion. From there, each object meticulously takes shape through the construction of anthropomorphic mechanical objects, automata, carefully made to evoke personal connections between the viewer and the work. Using aged recycled metals with minimal shifts in color to construct the body and then animating the objects with technology, aim to create spaces for silent dialogues and heightened perception and reflections.Yuelin is drawn to crafting automata that emotionally engage audiences. The creative process starts by exploring the movement between objects, considering each movement and action as transferable emotion. From there, each object meticulously takes shape through the construction of anthropomorphic mechanical objects, automata, carefully made to evoke personal connections between the viewer and the work. Using aged recycled metals with minimal shifts in color to construct the body and then animating the objects with technology, aim to create spaces for silent dialogues and heightened perception and reflections. Yuelin is drawn to crafting automata that emotionally engage audiences. The creative process starts by exploring the movement between objects, considering each movement and action as transferable emotion. From there, each object meticulously takes shape through the construction of anthropomorphic mechanical objects, automata, carefully made to evoke personal connections between the viewer and the work. Using aged recycled metals with minimal shifts in color to construct the body and then animating the objects with technology, aim to create spaces for silent dialogues and heightened perception and reflections.
5/2024
I KNOW A PLACE
Installation
Automaton / Mechanical / Connections / Movements
08/2024
THE ABSURDITY OF SOFTNESS
Sculpture
Objectification / Absurdity / Cultural symbolism

The Absurdity of Softness

The Absurdity of Softness is a sculptural piece that combines everyday materials with symbols from popular culture. It merges Sarah Lucas’s deconstruction of gender symbols and the material body with Jeff Koons’s critique of consumer culture and mass production.

Through the contrast between materials and form, the piece explores the relationships between objectification, absurdity, and cultural symbolism.

08/15/2024
Stockings, cotton, sewing thread
Variable Dimensions

Stockings, as a material closely associated with the body and gender, are recontextualized into a soft yet distorted shape, simultaneously conveying the fragility of the body and a sense of irony. The softness of the cotton paired with the elasticity of the stockings transforms the familiar symbol of the “balloon dog” into something that loses the stability and strength typically associated with Koons’s works. Instead, it presents an absurd, almost unstable state.