Yezi Lin
Guangzhou & Hangzhou & Rotterdam
Guangzhou & Hangzhou & Rotterdam
Yezi Lin was born in China and has been working with film since 2020. In 2022, she moved to the Netherlands and began creating her own films as the primary medium for developing her artistic practice. Simultaneously, she pursued acting and collaborated with other directors as part of her exploration of film.
Through film, acting, installation, sound and photography, Yezi Lin’s practice traces the intersection of identity and memory, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Social experience is dissected through a symbolic language that occurs in splitting versions of the self. Drawing from research on colonial histories, folktales and autobiography, she uses fiction and narrative devices to show the rupture between imagination and lived experience. The combination of a child-like playfulness spins alongside a more historical reckoning with the conditions of immigrants' native cultural identity.
Education
2022-2024 MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art
Prize
2022 BanShan Photography Award, CH & JP
2023 Scholarship of Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT
2023 The Fifth 1839 Photography Excellence Award, CH
Exhibition
2024 The Trance of Treat, Group show, Snake, Give Me A Chance of Rebirth, Video, Hainan, CH
2024 “HiShorts!” filmfestival, screening of The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden( collaborater ), Xiamen, CH
2024 “Six of one, half dozen the other”, Group Show, Snake, Give Me A Chance of Rebirth , Video, installation, Piet Zwart Institue, NL
2024 Wish You Happy, Group Show, The Palace of Memory, Photography, Installations,Contemporary Image Museum of Chengdu, CH
2023 The Palace of Memory, Solo Show, Photography and Installations Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam, NL,
2023 Kamoulux, Group Show, Photography, Audio and Installations, RIB Gallery, Rotterdam, NL,
︎ Instagram
︎ yezilin53@gmail.com
Through film, acting, installation, sound and photography, Yezi Lin’s practice traces the intersection of identity and memory, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Social experience is dissected through a symbolic language that occurs in splitting versions of the self. Drawing from research on colonial histories, folktales and autobiography, she uses fiction and narrative devices to show the rupture between imagination and lived experience. The combination of a child-like playfulness spins alongside a more historical reckoning with the conditions of immigrants' native cultural identity.
Education
2022-2024 MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art
Prize
2022 BanShan Photography Award, CH & JP
2023 Scholarship of Summer Academy, Salzburg, AT
2023 The Fifth 1839 Photography Excellence Award, CH
Exhibition
2024 The Trance of Treat, Group show, Snake, Give Me A Chance of Rebirth, Video, Hainan, CH
2024 “HiShorts!” filmfestival, screening of The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden( collaborater ), Xiamen, CH
2024 “Six of one, half dozen the other”, Group Show, Snake, Give Me A Chance of Rebirth , Video, installation, Piet Zwart Institue, NL
2024 Wish You Happy, Group Show, The Palace of Memory, Photography, Installations,Contemporary Image Museum of Chengdu, CH
2023 The Palace of Memory, Solo Show, Photography and Installations Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam, NL,
2023 Kamoulux, Group Show, Photography, Audio and Installations, RIB Gallery, Rotterdam, NL,
︎ Instagram
︎ yezilin53@gmail.com