Yang YUE
Artist

Yang YUE graduated from MO.CO Esba (Montpellier, France) , working between France and China. My multidisciplinary practice — spanning video, installation, sound, and photography —examines individual memory, identity, and nature-human activity entanglements. Through immersive visual storytelling and spatial interventions, I interrogate themes of ecological coexistence, temporal erosion, and destruction/regeneration. By documenting industrialization’s environmental impacts, my work constructs perceptual tensions through body/machine and sound/space contrasts, triggering emotional resonance. Recent projects focus on Moroccan phosphate factories’ ecological and social consequences, using long takes, ambient soundscapes, and villager testimonies to reveal industrial pollution’s infiltration into domestic spaces and survival strategies. My works, exhibited in France and China, critique modernity’s disruption of human-environment symbiosis.
Artistic Approach
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.
Expositions
2025
Residence Saison 6 (3 mois), Montpellier, France
GIBCA • Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Götgorg, Swden
Biennale Internationale de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
Residence Art FLow (3 mois), Shanghai, Chine
Star-Studded, Tai Art Center, Shanghai, Chine
2023
APMA-Paris, exposition d’art contemporain, Paris, France
Exposition de jeunes artistes contemporains, Sciences Po, Paris
Le Studio des Arts Vivants, Casablanca, Maroc
Un arbre dans la ville, Galerie Coin de Ciel, Paris
2022
Hors les mûrs, La Chapelle, Sète, France
Le Grand Show, Galerie Glasse Box, Sète, France
Ce qu’il nous reste des anges, Galerie Artel, Montpellier, France
Carré d’artistes, Montpellier
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