Christophe Guye Gallery: John Yuyi

Christophe Guye Gallery pronounces the illustration of Taiwanese artist John Yuyi (* 1991, Taipei). Yuyi is understood worldwide as an interdisciplinary voice of her era in artwork, trend, and social media. The millennial-speak depictions of the feminine physique and her aptitude for gathering, wielding, and reflecting on social media affect are recurring in her observe. She makes use of non permanent tattoos to generate visible manifestos, whereas the physique turns into a performative display to current them. As well as, Yuyi exploits the iconography of mass media by using her personal physique to challenge the photographs upon, which additionally displays the self and the economics of identification.

John Yuyi (* 1991, Taiwan) is understood worldwide as an interdisciplinary voice of her era in artwork, trend, and social media. The millennial-speak depictions of the feminine physique and her aptitude for gathering, wielding, and reflecting on social media affect are recurring in her observe. She makes use of non permanent tattoos to generate visible manifestos, whereas the physique turns into a performative display to current them. As well as, Yuyi exploits the iconography of mass media by using her personal physique to challenge the photographs upon, which additionally displays the self and the economics of identification.

In a collection of ongoing investigations into the intersections between the bodily and technological worlds, Yuyi explores our habit to social media and the marks it leaves on our lives. Th e reality that focus has turn into a very powerful forex can be evident within the artist’s collaboration with prestigious manufacturers, whose logos she ‘tattoos’ on her pores and skin earlier than posting her self -portraits as ads on Instagram. On this approach, the Taiwanese artist reveals how the physique has turn into a car for media consideration on social networks. On the identical time, she demonstrates how our our bodies are occupied by these very platforms. They affect how we current and understand ourselves – and decide the worth we give ourselves.

Yuyi, now primarily based in New York Metropolis, obtained her BFA in Trend Design from Shih Chien College in 2013. Yuyi’s work has been exhibited each within the US and internationally, together with in ‘The Artist Is On-line’, König Galerie, Berlin (2021) ; ‘World Gallery’, König Galerie, Berlin (2021); ‘Manifesto of freedom’ 193 Gallery, Paris (2020); ‘Eye See No Lashes’ Tao Artwork, Taipei (2021); Taipei Dangdai, Taipei (2019); The Artwork Emptiness, New York (2018); My (non permanent) self, Los Angeles (2018); ‘Jo hn Yuyi’, Shanghai (2018); Extra Than A Gallery, Paris (2016); Off Subject, Taipei (2016), Watermark, Los Angeles (2016), and in Sydney. Most not too long ago she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as a part of the exhibition ‘How you can Win at Pictures – Picture-Making as Play’ together with artists corresponding to Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Ai Weiwei. At present she is exhibited within the ‘Fundación Foto Colectania’ in Barcelona along with Roni Horn and Thomas Ruff amongst others.

She was acknowledged by Forbes journal within the ’30 underneath 30 Asia 2018 – The Arts’ class. Moreover, Yuyi has labored on worldwide tasks with Gucci, Kenzo, Burberry, and Maison Margiela, amongst different manufacturers, and has been profiled by i -D, Workplace, NYLON, Dazed, Bullett, the BBC, and The New York Instances.

Christophe Guye Gallery
Dufourstrasse 31
8008 Zurich / Switzerland

www.cristopheguye.com