based in weimar
jy1490@icloud.com
As part of a generation raised amidst media saturation, I have been continuously drawn to the ways in which our senses, identities, memories, and connections are shaped through mediated environments. As a media artist, I engage with tools ranging from online images and cinematic scenes to the tactile feel of interfaces- not just as representational devices, but as languages through which I read the world, and forms through which I rewrite it.
In shaping my practice, I draw on Donna Haraway's concept of3SF-Speculative Fabulation, Science Fiction, and String Figures-as an aesthetic orientation. Science fiction becomes a threshold between rational thought and wild imagination; speculative fabulation allows me to ask "what if?" at the level of being; and string figures offer a way to weave new stories through relations between different kinds of existences. My project 'It is raining heavily' is a realization of this framework.
Reimagining thepost-apocalypse not as an end but as a space for renewal, the work constructs a scene of diasporic identity and sensory navigation through light and darkness, reflection and feedback, motion and stillness. The installation functions as a cinematic setting, where I place myself within the frame- recording, repositioning, and reconfiguring my presence- while the audience is likewise invited to become co-navigators, weaving lines of relation through interaction.
Through this work, I explore how we, shaped by media, have come to perceive and think about ourselves in new ways, and how we might rethread these cognitive structures to generate alternative narratives. In this process, media is not merely a tool of expression- it becomes a site of symbiotic sensing and speculative ontology.
“It is Raining Heavily” is a poetic interactive light installation that explores diasporic existence within a fabulative world. Inspired by the metaphor of a boat’s journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape, the work delves into themes of communication, transformation, and uncertainty.
The project began with a question: “If I were to express this life in another world, how might it take shape?” This question led to the creation of a fictional space where ambiguity and change are embraced.
Inspired by the artist’s personal experience, the work reimagines the post-apocalypse not as an end, but as a space of becoming and renewal. This fictional landscape serves as a conceptual ground to reflect on change, survival, and connection.
Inspired by the artist’s personal experience, the work reimagines the post-apocalypse not as an end, but as a space of becoming and renewal. This fictional landscape serves as a conceptual ground to reflect on change, survival, and connection.
At the center of the installation is a flashlight equipped with a touchpad, symbolizing a fragile but persistent boat. Visitors activate light signals through touch, which are reflected by mirrored lighthouses, creating a silent dialogue of presence and absence.
In this imagined world, uncertainty is not feared—it becomes a condition for renewal, connection, and poetic exploration.