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