Yi Jin

About

Yi Jin is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai. She thinks print helps her to
tell stories with special physical and emotional feelings. The techniques
and textures of printmaking enhance the sense of uncertainty that she
wishes to deliver. She focused on making self-publications, printmaking and
illustrations. By capturing certain fleeting emotions in everyday
situations, Yi Jin’s inspiration usually comes from the hidden fragments of
life. She thinks it is important to record these trivial moments because
she finds that the environment she grew up in always expects her to find a
linear and straight route to the destination, discouraging her from taking
detours in the process. But Yi Jin believes that on our life journey,
numerous tiny things seem irrelevant to our goals or destinations. These
things are integrated with the monumental things in life, forming a special
web. She would rather her life consist of such a web instead of a clear
line. Meanwhile, Yi Jin focused on the man-made objects that are scattered
all over life because she believes that the traces on an object often
testify to the presence of a person, whose absence, in turn, offers her the
possibility of narrative and imagination.