"Postcolonialism brings/brought me here."
T-shirt, the person who wears it, various situations, 2022.
photo taken in Go Asia Supermarket, Hamburg, Germany. photographer: Li Anqi
T-shirt, the person who wears it, various situations, 2022.
photo taken in Go Asia Supermarket, Hamburg, Germany. photographer: Li Anqi
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zhaoyuefan was born in Wuhan, China and grew up in Beijing, China.
She has been working and living in Germany and Switzerland since 2016.
zhaoyuefan’s artistic practice moves fluidly between mediums, always engaging with different environments in a playful and adaptive way. Starting from the question “why I am here” (her experience of living as a legal alien in western countries), she interferes with daily life situations, de-/reconstructs existing objects and found images, digging into their contexts, uses lightness to touch on the visible and invisible boundaries shaped by language, culture, identities and collective memories. Her works are a series of translations, transformations and transpositions based on the transcultural context.
Besides her own practice, zhaoyuefan is also the co-founder of the artist collective Mahjong Friends and part of the independent publishing house Nomad Papaya Books.
zhaoyuefan was born in Wuhan, China and grew up in Beijing, China.
She has been working and living in Germany and Switzerland since 2016.
zhaoyuefan’s artistic practice moves fluidly between mediums, always engaging with different environments in a playful and adaptive way. Starting from the question “why I am here” (her experience of living as a legal alien in western countries), she interferes with daily life situations, de-/reconstructs existing objects and found images, digging into their contexts, uses lightness to touch on the visible and invisible boundaries shaped by language, culture, identities and collective memories. Her works are a series of translations, transformations and transpositions based on the transcultural context.
Besides her own practice, zhaoyuefan is also the co-founder of the artist collective Mahjong Friends and part of the independent publishing house Nomad Papaya Books.