Yi Lian
Born in 1987 in Yichun, Jiangxi, Graduated from the New Media ArtDepartment of China Academy of Art in 2009 with a B.A, obtained M.A from theSchool of Intermedia Art of China Academy of Art in 2012, Currently lives andworks in Hangzhou.
Yi Lian’s creation focuses on video art, rife with a sense of theatricality in his work: let it be the artificial lighting, scenes under the grim overcast, temporary encounter, affords him the freedom to disconnect from reality, so he could make space for imagination.
As a “realistic dreamer”, Yi Lian’s early works focus on how to emancipate the body from the “person”, and the ways in which to undermine conventional relationships between the self and the others. Among his works, the alienated body becomes reborn in nature, and animals are given the same status as human beings. A sensibility for warmth and light is prevalent and recurrent in Yi Lian’s works, whether bright or dim, close or far, cool or warm, these atmospheres have engendered intimacy that implies for the subtlety in relationships between people, people and objects, and people to the world.
