Yuqing Shi (b.1998, Suzhou, China) currently lives and works in Hangzhou and London
2021-2023, MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art
2016-2021, BA Sculpture, China Academy of Art
Yuqing Shi is interested in the uncertainty and fragility of life, finding moments of absurdity in the seemingly mundane everyday. Her work revolves around the easily overlooked objects of everyday life, the insignificant objects that she believes comprise our existence.
"Not just to non-human voices, but to rethink our existence as they relate to all existence." This is what multi-species ethnography and materiality have taught her and are the most important parts of her practice - memory, effect, landscape, time - are tied together in all organisms and act in everyday life.
Her recent practice revolves around the interaction between humans and creatures, using sculpture, photography and installation to shape a fictional and hysterical world - one sits between the cracks of human community life and the ecosystem in which both humans and non-humans are blurred.
Selected group exhibitions:
05/2023 Include in the ReA! Art Fair 2023, Milan, Italy
03/2023 The Fading Spaciousness, OXO Tower, London
03/2023 Hung, Drawn & Quartered, Standpoint Gallery, London
11/2022 Spiel Allein, Gallery 46, London
08/2022 Include in the Art Nova 100 青年艺术100, Guardian Art Center, China
03/2022 Earth Tipping Point - Cross-Media Contemporary Art Exhibition 地球临界点, M Space, China
03/2022 It’s All Fun Until... ,Safe House, London
12/2022 We Won’t Stop Showing, SET Woolwich, London
08/2021 Scenic Spot - Never Lie Flat 景区-绝不躺平, X2 Gallery, China
07/2021 the Lake Water in Countercurrent 逆流的湖水, Fuyicang Art Center, China
05/2021 the Unknown Vector - Intertidal Zone 未知向量-潮间带, T Project, China
10/2020 Oriental Physical Property (2020) 东方物性, China Academy of Art, China