Yilina Yang
About
Through beautiful yet dangerous forms, my work reveals how the lure of vanity leads us into silent traps of nothingness.
Influenced by Vanitas painting and historical hunting scenes, animalistic metaphors often surface in my work — skin, scales, feathers, and skeletal structures. These elements carry traces of life while quietly alluding to the nothingness that follows its disappearance.
At the same time, the shimmering metallic glaze, artificial gems, and synthetic skeletal hollows introduce a sense of hallucinatory excess — a kind of heightened visual pleasure that borders on the dangerous, almost uncanny. These surfaces evoke both allure and collapse.
The resulting forms exist in a space between life and non-life, elegance and violence, the archaeological and the futuristic. They behave as fragile, theatrical, and slightly deceptive presences. By shaping absence into structure, and beauty into warning, I attempt to sculpt the quiet fear of impermanence.
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