I. No More Statements
Statements on the walls of galleries often have crowds reading them. There were even queues to read the statements at the Venice Biennale. Yet few visitors stood for long in front of the artworks themselves. Has the amount of attention given by visitors to statements and artworks been thrown off balance? Is this balance of attention what the artist hopes for? How should visitors and artists regard the relationship between statement and artwork?
II. How To Explain the Origins of Life
How To Explain the Origins of Life is an extension of Mingyue Yue’s Red Yarn series, which explores the meaning of life and existence.
III. Sketches of Expanded Parisian Life
Studying the works of Picasso, Bacon, and David Hockney, we believe their inspiration comes from different ways to observe objects and laws of perspective. We attempt to apply these methods to our arrangement of sketches and construct a record of completely expanded Parisian life.
Yue Mingyue and Cao Zhen are fibre artists from Beijing, China currently pursuing master’s degrees in Fiber Art from the Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design. Their works have been displayed at the “From Lausanne to Beijing” 10th International Fiber Arts Biennial, among others.
Mingyue Yue and Zhen Cao (China) are in residency at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the Tsinghua University - Arts and Design.