YIYAO TANG

Yiyao Tang, born in China, now lives and works in New York and Shangai. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MDes from Harvard University.

Tang’s practice coalesces mediums of intervention, projection, and installation to explore how social and political systems are embedded within images and objects. Using personal devices and inventive setups, she constructs and contests ideas on freedom, trauma, justice, otherness, and memory. Her setups behave twofold: both object and subject of her ideas, often leading to unpredictable outcomes themselves. More than just an archival account, Tang’s approach approximates archaeology in her ongoing process of uncovering evidence of our own contemporary artefacts, collective memories, and climactic traumas.

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Projects

faulting
faulting, glimpsing
packaging room
compressing, expanding
molding, migrating
swaying, hovering
sheltering, lingering
05. mattering
06. futile instrument: war and tears
07. precarious