Jingyi Yang
About
Master of Research student of communication pathway with a graphic design background. My practice-based project focuses on the debate about the power shifting between the audience and curator, as a graphic designer I am making a subjective guide that constantly challenges perspectives while embracing the polyvocal, from ‘I’ to the third person. It becomes a correspondence of myself as a young graphic designer from China, reconsidering my cultural identity after living in London for over a quarter of my life and visualising it into a subjective guide to a museum object. It is going be a long-term project that starts with this guide as the beginning, I will be choosing one object from different collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum to reframe and reflect my self-identity with objects.
Have you ever been drawn to an object in a museum so strongly that you were intrigued about why? The first time I saw this object in the China gallery at the V&A, somehow it triggered an identity crisis for me as a Chinese graphic designer. I had never seen or noticed something that looked like this. I could not help myself standing in front of it and trying to catch any detail that I was familiar with. All I could associate with it was the ‘Western-style’ that I grew up with, which made me think, then who am I? Is there a boundary between cultures?
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