The multimedia exhibition Fragments at Silk Gallery Madrid showcases Yukai Du's surreal and engaging storytelling ability.
Yukai’s influences are rooted in her upbringing in Southern China, foundations in traditional Chinese painting, and appreciation for Chinese literature. Specifically, Fragment by modern poet Bian Zhilin has inspired the artist to build new realities from the abstract. Fragments also explores a painted past of landscapes from the now UK-based artist’s journeys as a traveler. As she picks apart places and spaces, she portrays them in her own surreal, impressionistic visual language.
Through the marriage of animation and illustration in her work, Yukai’s images could be understood as a single frame or a singular moment. There’s an imaginary time before and after, hence the feeling that her works overflow the frame.
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