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Yang   YUE

Artist

Artistic  Approach

Yang YUE, a graduate of MO.CO ESBA (Montpellier, France), works between France and China. Her multidisciplinary practice—spanning video, sound, and photography—focuses on individual memory, identity, and the relationship between nature and human activity.

Through visual storytelling and spatial interventions, she examines ecological coexistence, the erosion of time, and processes of destruction and regeneration. By documenting the environmental impact of industrialization, she creates perceptual tensions by juxtaposing body and machine, sound and space, to evoke emotional resonance. Drawing inspiration from the theories of Marx, Lukács, and Bourdieu, her critical approach explores how social and economic structures shape subjectivity.

Her work, exhibited in France and China, also investigates the political dimension of contemporary landscapes, challenging established norms and inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the environment and identity.

My practice critically examines capitalism’s impact on individuals and the environment, drawing from Marx, Lukács, Debord, and Fraser. I explore industrial production’s role in alienation, exposing how consumerism and technology reduce life to commodified spectacle.

Inspiration comes from observing social structures—empty offices at night, dehumanized cities, nature tamed by concrete—revealing cracks in the dominant order. Like Debord, I see images replacing lived experience, and my visual language captures these tensions.

My work interrogates the human condition under capitalism: how people resist or conform to oppressive structures. In Fake Flower and uɐɯoM, I critique the gendered alienation of consumerism. Artificial flowers and red fabric symbolize market-distorted femininity: flawless yet emotionally hollow, as Fraser’s analysis underscores.

Aesthetically, I blend long takes, fragmented narratives, and surrealism (à la Deren, Akerman, Lynch). Repetitive actions—a woman hammering a mall wall, another drifting between postures—embody both defiance and existential dislocation.

I reject documentary neutrality for sensory, poetic immersion. Experimental editing, lighting contrasts, and nonlinear rhythms heighten the critique, treating each image as a situationist intervention—exposing spectacle’s mechanisms to provoke confrontation.

Exhibitions

2025

Residency Saison 6 (3 months), Montpellier, France

GIBCA • Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Götgorg, Swden

Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

Residency Art FLow (3 months), Shanghai, China

Star-Studded, Tai Art Center, Shanghai, China

 

2024
Hors-sol,Espace MVG,Paris, France
En nos cabanes, refuges et autres demeures, La Clairière, Paris, France
Our town,Centre de photographie, Sète, France 

Sounds of sunset,Laredo Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Une autre famille,So Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco

2023

ESMA Paris, Exposition d’art contemporain, Paris, France

Exposition de jeunes artistes contemporains, Sciences Po, Paris, France

Le Studio des Arts Vivants, Casablanca, Maroc

Un arbre dans la ville, Galerie Coin de Ciel, Paris, France

2022

Hors les mûrs, La Chapelle, Sète, France

Le Grand Show, Galerie Glasse Box, Sète, France

Isolated Island 孤岛, Espace Saint-Ravy, Montpellier, France

2021

Politique du silence, Montpellier Fine Arts Schools, Montpellier, France

2019

Blob, Faculty of Education, Montpellier, France

Blob, Faculty of Medicine, Montpellier, France

2016

G20 Planet of Objects / G20物的行星, Sanshang Art 三尚当代艺术馆, Hangzhou, China

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