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YaYa Yajie Liang: I’m similar, not similar to something, but just similar

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna

Fri 29 Nov 2024 to Fri 10 Jan 2025

Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040 YaYa Yajie Liang: I’m similar, not similar to something, but just similar

Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm

Artist: Yaya Yajie Liang

YaYa Yajie Liang (b. 1995, Henan, China) has a BA Fine Art China Central Academy of Fine Arts (2018) and a MA Painting at Royal College of Art (2020). She is doing Ph.D. research at Royal College of Art since 2020.

Yaya Yajie Liang's work explores the metamorphosis of the body and the potential of 'becoming animal'. From the legendary banished beast to the interpenetration of biological space, Liang interrogates how men's analogic mapping to and from animals (within imagined, lived, or taxonomic intimacies) helps us to reconsider the prescribed definition of 'humanity'. Taking inspiration from Agential Realism, Liang views painting as a movement that is constantly repeating the 'becoming'. Shifting restlessly between abstract and figurative modes, she uses improvisation to kick-start new paintings, allowing unplanned initial strokes to help dictate the works' subsequent direction.

YaYa Yajie Liang, Humus, 2024Oil on canvas, 220 x 180 cm, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in. (Photo: courtesy of the artist)

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