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Haiyun Yang
Photography MA

Swansea College of Art UWTSD

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: / Film & Animation / Photomontage

My location: Shenzhen, China

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Swansea College of Art UWTSD

Haiyun Yang

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First Name: Haiyun

Last Name: Yang

University / College: Swansea College of Art UWTSD

Course / Program: Photography MA

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: / Film & Animation / Photomontage

My Location: Shenzhen, China

About

It was not until recently that I realized how my personal spirit was deeply nourished by the Eastern civilization, and my artistic creation was to put the values of eastern civilization, which is gradually forgotten even in the east today, into contemporary art that can be described in the context of western civilization. --Sugimoto.

Human Theatre III--the shuangxi house

The poet creates harmony out of chaos. --Andrei Tarkovsky The movement of the film is poetic, it is essentially "the writing of photography", it is "the flow of time". Human Theatre III's photography series of juxtaposition of space is a confluence of ideas and a group of loose practices. It does not have a single point of origin, a clear meaning, or a linear narrative: Instead, it uses a series of fragmented metaphors and metonymy phrases to solve the problem of the passage of time, explore the philosophy of life, express desire, absence, complex, and the thought of Self, and try to find the combination of sensibility and reason with poetic narration methods, completing the transmutation of time to the juxtaposition of space. Conceptual photography is a form of photography that emerged after the 1960s. Based on the exploration of diversified and extreme forms of expression in modern photography, conceptual photography involves the discussion of various contemporary political and social issues. In terms of expression techniques, conceptual photography moves more from taking photos to making photos. My form of photography mainly draws on the works of three artists--Hiroji Sugimoto, Joseph Kossuth and Bernard Falcon. Under their artistic influence, between text and image, I try to interweave the inner thought with the outer expression, using past, present and future tenses at the same time, presenting myself as subject and object of the photograph, as self and other, as present and absent, as dead but also alive, as culture and narrative. These images represent a meta-discourse about photographic and cinematic identity that repeats and powerfully emphasizes a paradoxical counterpoint, our endless search for, and absence of, our complete Self.