Yigo Jia

About

‘I adore the color of milk, yet find no love for its taste.
I’m drawn to dizziness, but shun the piercing light.
Observing crowds brings me delight, but unbridled proximity, fright.
I savor delicate words, but find language amiss.
In the park, I stroll and find solace, but in two, I recoil.
At times, I find words to be sufficiently good,
Yet oftentimes, they fall short, misunderstood.
If my works could stand as my true introduction,
Then, perhaps, you’d truly find me…’

Yigo (b.1999) lives and works in Beijing and London.
A multidisciplinary artist, creating in writing, sculpture, performance, and moving images.

Yigo’s works explore traumatic memories and transient moments in life. She tries to portray human vulnerability, and examine identity and intimacy. They are always about ‘love’, ‘loss’, ‘death’ and ‘memories’. She works in multiple media and weaves narratives of her private experience and others through a combination of performance, writing, sculpture, moving image and installation. By capturing subtle fragments, intimacy and public, reality and fiction, boundaries between art and life are blurred.

Her works are visceral and always begin with writing. It is done in unconsciousness, daze and wanderings, in which time and memory are chronic, detached and fermenting.