YUELIN LI
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Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement. Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement. Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement. Yuelin Li is an artist who creates kinetic sculptures and installations that explore the emotional resonance of objects in motion. Deeply sensitive to the solitude permeating existence, she investigates the fragile, often fleeting nature of connection—between humans and objects, objects and objects, and their overlapping agencies. In her work, movement is not merely a mechanical function but a subtle language, a force that reveals the impermanence and quiet tensions embedded in the material world.By observing how the movements of objects evoke emotional parallels to human experiences, she translates these ephemeral interactions into poetic metaphors—gestures of closeness and distance, holding and letting go.Yuelin’s work does not seek resolution but lingers in the liminal spaces between stillness and motion, connection and dissolution. She embraces contingency and impermanence, allowing objects to unfold in time, revealing their own quiet agency. Through these orchestrated yet unpredictable interactions, she invites viewers to witness silent dialogues that transcend the boundaries of the human—where the movement of an object is not simply mechanical but a fleeting trace of presence, a reflection of change, and a moment of attunement.

The Absurdity of Softness

The Absurdity of Softness operates within the tension between materiality and cultural semiotics, fusing the everyday with the hyperreal. The work appropriates and reconfigures symbols from popular culture, collapsing Sarah Lucas’s interrogation of gendered forms with Jeff Koons’s critique of consumerist spectacle. Through an interplay of surface and substance—softness rendered rigid, the mass-produced made singular—the sculpture articulates the contradictions inherent in objectification and desire. Absurdity emerges not as an anomaly but as a structural condition, embedded in the very processes that govern cultural production and consumption.

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.

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