Press Release
For the 4th project of FRONT.ROOM.LOOP, Ying Yu, a Beijing based artist, will present his 2012 video work entitled “Unfinished Country”.
Unfinished Country was inspired by both a real case of land dispute in rural Southern China and a late socialistic realism artist’s sketch (Shikuo WANG, “Blood-tinted Clothes” sketch). The film, through rehearsals by villagers, connected the fate of a painter, a piece of art work and an anonymous person who died of land disputes. It not only reflected land and power heritage in modern day revolution in China but also questioned the relationship between the imagination of a painting and reality, performing body and everyday body, acting time and daily time.
Ying Yu was born in China in 1987. He graduated with a M.A. from Central Academy of Art in Beijing in 2012. He is a founding member of art group BALCONY. His recent exhibitions include:“Unfinished Country – New Video from China” (Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston & Asia Society Texas Center, 2012); “Still Life – The Art Practice of Balcony Collective” (Lelege Art Space, 2012), in addition to extensive museum and institutional shows around the world, such as Valencia University in Spain; Today Art Museum in Beijing; Chongqing Art Museum in China; Yonghe Art Museum in Beijing; Times Art Museum in Beijing; CAFA Museum in Beijing; Tsinghua University Museum in Beijing. He was also the recipient of numerous awards including: Finalist (Focus on Talents Project, 2011); Finalist (Chinese New Painting Award, 2011); Finalist (Luo Zhongli Art Awards, 2009); and Yang Feiyun Art Award (2009).
