https://theunrealwangyuyan.com wang yuyan Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:19:20 +0000 https://theunrealwangyuyan.com en https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Look-On-the-Bright-Side-installation-uccca Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:19:20 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Look-On-the-Bright-Side-installation-uccca https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Green-Grey-Black-Brown Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:28:59 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Green-Grey-Black-Brown Green Grey Black Brown video installation 11’30  2024Departing from the traditional factory lines of production on the plastic plant manufacturing industry. From there, the film expands into the realm of synthetic nature, portraying a highly engineered landscape,developed by startups. The images appear to be bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence as a connection to the strange and gory logics of petro capitalism and global territories of extraction.Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, serves as a temporal vector: it is the raw material for plastic plants,  Revealing the absurd techno-solutionist vision of the future. https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Look-On-the-Bright-Side Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:12:18 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Look-On-the-Bright-Side Look On the Bright Side Film,  16’30  2023 + installation views In an age of wire and string, futuristic visions anchor in lithic time. In the dark, people are driven to shine in the most spectacular ways.  Starting with materials filmed in LED factories in southern China, the film weaves together recycled footage from social networks to portray a community living under the pervasive influence of ever-lasting light. Its abstract narrative reveals an extensive network of intertwined nodes and coexisting relationships, all shrouded in obscurity - a letter to our opaque, fragile organic bodies, caught in an era obsessed with unceasing visibility, transparency, and efficiency.  https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Look-On-the-Bright-Side-installation Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:59:59 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Look-On-the-Bright-Side-installation https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/The-Moon-Also-Rises-1 Tue, 08 Aug 2023 07:39:58 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/The-Moon-Also-Rises-1 The Moon Also Rises Film, 25’  2023 + installation views+ trailer Just before the launch of artificial moons, a retired couple finds their harbor in the fading darkness. Trying to catch up with the pace of modernity, their daily life traces this forthcoming brightness back to its earthly origins. https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Yuyan-Wang Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:40:20 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/Yuyan-Wang https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/chronicle-of-feelings-installation-views Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:35:52 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/chronicle-of-feelings-installation-views https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/1001-installation-views Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:18:55 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/1001-installation-views https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/moth-installation Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:59:09 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/moth-installation https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/the-moon-also-rises-trailer Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:11:21 +0000 wang yuyan https://theunrealwangyuyan.com/the-moon-also-rises-trailer