俞文杰

Yu Wenjie is an artist who experiences the world with in-

securities. He regards absolute honesty and courage in art

as his priority. His artworks originate from the expression

of inner experiences generated by the body and spirit in the

process of experiencing and exploring the world.

These inner experiences give rise to illusions, memories, as-

sociations, fantasies and feelings, while these elements are

constantly broken and reorganized into visual fragments.

These fragments lose the limitations of time and space

but maintain a similar spatiotemporal distance from his

present experience. The cracks that appeared naturally be-

tween these visual fragments are displayed in his artworks

by either strengthening the direct presentation or weakening

the transition zone. Therefore, grand and micro narratives

always coexist in his works. His artworks are both delicate

and sensitive, manifested in the destruction and reshaping

of materials during the making process, showing a kind of

"fragile yet firm" innocence and romance.

His media includes painting, sculpture, installation, moving

images, performance, and sound. He combined history and

the future in a leap way, showing that the present is both

past and future. His inspiration system is huge and complex,

so it is difficult to detect a specific clue of inspiration in his

practice. He is a hybrid and diverse artist who is at translat-

ing objects from his spiritual world directly to the real world

through his artworks. He maintains principles while con-

stantly changing rapidly. Believing that "not being changed

by the world is actually changing the world."

Wenjie Yu (b.1997, Shanghai) lives and works in London and Shanghai. He holds MA degree at Royal College of Art and a BFA degree at China Academy of Art. He is an artist who experiences the world with insecurities. He regards absolute honesty and courage in art as his priority. His artworks originate from the expression of inner experiences generated by the body and spirit in the process of experiencing and exploring the world. These inner experiences give rise to illusions, memories, associations, fantasies and feelings, while these elements are constantly broken and reorganized into visual fragments. Therefore, grand and micro narratives that are both delicate and sensitive always coexist in his works.