{"id":4943,"date":"2022-08-22T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-blog-lb-526867726.eu-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2022-08-22T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T12:34:02","slug":"yuge-zhou-we-are-all-interlinked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/yuge-zhou-we-are-all-interlinked\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuge Zhou: \u201cwe are all interlinked\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pau Waelder & Roxanne Vardi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuge Zhou<\/a>‘s artworks and artistic practice explore connections, isolation, and longing across natural and urban spaces as sites of shared dreams. The artist creates immersive experiences through the digital collage technique. Niio recently commissioned two artworks by Yuge titled “Interlinked I”, 2022<\/a> and “Interlinked II”, 2022<\/a>. The title, ‘Interlinked’ was inspired by the film Blade Runner 2049<\/em>, in which there is a poem recited by the protagonist as a base-line test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A system of cells interlinked within<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cells interlinked within cells interlinked<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within one stem. And dreadfully distinct<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the film, the main protagonist and the female protagonist\u2019s lives are interlinked even though their lives are opposite. Their mission and world views are different, but ultimately their actions are driven by their perspectives, and their lives are interlinked because of that. We spoke to the artist about her latest commissioned works and their relation to her overall artistic direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As part of your artistic practice you are known for your digital collage artworks which bring together numerous video clips taken into a coherent whole that represent the cycle of urban life. Can you please elaborate on this process?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It depends on the project. For this commission, the process involved a lot of improvisation so it has two steps. First, I travel to the locations and collect raw footage. Most of the time I go to the places without a particular mission not trying to film the most photogenic view, but I have a sense of what I want to capture, I am very open minded and I allow chance to happen. Once I collect the raw footage I bring it back to my studio and I start editing and this is when I search for themes and events and interesting justifications in the footage. Then I assemble the footage into the collages, so in a way my work is a visual diary, it\u2019s an intimate process for me. For Interlinked II,<\/em> which I shot in the subway station, it\u2019s a collage of hundreds of themes, when I filmed the work I knew that I wanted to film the people on the other side of the platform, but I didn\u2019t know what they were going to do. It was about duration and time spent at the location, and then I discovered a rhythm of the moment in the footage and also in the editing process especially the direction of the moment. This is what I think is the most interesting aspect of the footage I capture, what I want to highlight in the project. A lot of my recent work is very different from the collage works, the newer works are more planned and scripted, and I have a specific vision of what I want to do and I am kind of a director and I have a team of people working with me, its different depending on the work, but I enjoy both processes equally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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