Yao Cong

(b. 1992 China) Currently lives and works nowhere…

Working across diverse mediums, including moving image, photography, performance, and installation, Yao Cong explores the complexity and contradictions of contemporary life. His works depict human figures in vulnerable, isolated, and alienated states, prompting reflections on the manufacturing and deconstruction of the body and landscape in modern life. Additionally, he questions how collective influences shape individual mentality through emotions and morality. In the context of the Anthropocene, Yao Cong’s practice evolves into a fluid, hybrid structure, highlighting the uncertainty of desire, anxiety, and power.

Yao Cong received his BA in Intermedia Art from China Academy of Art in 2014 and his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2017.

Yao Cong’s works have been exhibited extensively. Recent exhibitions include: ART SG-Film (Singapore, 2023); Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival (Xiamen, China, 2022); Chengdu International Photo festival (Chengdu, China, 2022); Yao Cong: Flies beyond the Clouds (Shanghai, China, 2021); Golden Flow – Beijing Contemporary Art Expo (Beijing, China, 2020); Holographia: 2018 International Art Festival, Times Art Museum (Beijing, China, 2018); From/To: the Frontier of Chinese Art Education (San Francisco, USA, 2018); VIDEONALE.16, Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany, 2017); Loop Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain, 2017); 8th International Contemporary Art Fair ARTVILNIUS (Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017); 14th Beijing Independent Film Festival (Beijing, China, 2017); 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece, 2017) among others.

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