Haiyun Yang
Photography MA
Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Specialisms: / Film & Animation / Photomontage
Location: Shenzhen, China
Haiyun Yang
First Name: Haiyun
Last Name: Yang
Specialisms: / Film & Animation / Photomontage
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My Location: Shenzhen, China
University / College: Swansea College of Art UWTSD
Course / Program Title: Photography MA
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.
Once upon a time, in a house near Egypt Street,there lived a rabbit and a little girl. The rabbit lived happily, and the little girl showed him great care and love. However, one day a trip let him accidentally lost, the little girl also so sad fell ill, dying. It has been an extraordinary journey- from the plight of the depths of the ocean to the candlelight of a dream house, from darkness and depression to empty lightness...... The rabbit and the little girl finally redeemed each other, and they all found their way home. This is an adapted fairy tale, in fact, if you watch the film closely, you will find that it is a fusion of three stories, covering different cultural ideas from the East and the West. I combined it with my previous project to nest one story within another, layers falling into the abyss. From empty-to-empty form, the expression is the one, is nothingness of Buddhist thoughts, as well as alchemy. I have always focused on expressing the physical and mental growth of women, and my works strive to reflect the struggle of women in contemporary society against tragic fate and their endless search for integrity.
Competitions
Global Design Graduate Show 2023
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.
Competitions