Yixuan Zhang
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Apart
2020
Wooden frame, hair and Bee wax
4 inches x 8 inches x 3/4 inches & 9 inches x 12.5inches x 1inches
Statement
The integrity of the individual consists of scattered, fragmented identities. My current project seeks to establish an open archive for my practice of daily life since "the self" is the only object that can be observed internally. All daily practices recorded in this archive are behaviors triggered by desires from the perspective of certain identities. These desires include the need to explore the physical existence of the body, the need for intellectual growth, the need to generate social labor value, and the need to touch the field of transcendental beliefs. The archive can be viewed as a scenario about an individual seeking solutions to the binary opposition between rationality and irrationality, non-abstraction, and abstraction. It can also be simply picked up in fragments as some practice in everyday life under different identities.
Mount Royal School of Art (Multidisciplinary MFA) Students