FILM LONDON LODESTARS: Chris Zhongtian Yuan
WHAT WE SAY
Chris makes intriguing, emotionally charged work which interrogate global issues through individual stories. Their work asks questions about our complicated world – recently looking at human-AI relationships, migration and reincarnation, and a missing punk musician in Wuhan. Chris’s FLAMIN Fellowship-supported project All Trace is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss premiered in an exhibition at London’s V.O Curations, and they have solo exhibitions forthcoming at Macalline Art Center, Beijing and Reading International, Reading.
BIO
Chris Zhongtian Yuan engages with the medium of film through an architectural and musical language. Recomposing sonic and spatial materials within spaces of exile, Yuan's work searches for forms of living, emotions and weak signals trapped between the analogue and the digital.Solo exhibitions include Home Is Where the Music Is, Reading International, Reading; No Door, On Window, Only Light, Macalline Art Center, Beijing; All Trace Is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss, V.O Curations, London; 1815, K11, Wuhan. Recent exhibitions and screenings include International Film Festival Rotterdam, Somerset House, Surplus Space, Whitechapel Gallery, Power Station of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Hubei Museum of Art, Videoex Zurich among others. Yuan previously received Aesthetica Art Prize, FLAMIN Fellowship and OCAT Institute's Curatorial Project Award (co-curator).