Rosina Yuan
“The great voice sounds faint, and the great image has no shape. Way remains hidden and nameless, but it alone nourishes and brings to completion.”
I work across different mediums, including drawing, painting, digital, and installation, to explore interactivity in public and private spaces. My current research focuses on digital ontology, (dis)embodiment and interiority associated with the virtual.
I understand ‘virtual’ as being in essence, without an actual physical form. Virtualisation is a process to change the state of being, to manifest an alternative identity of the original problem. Virtual Reality is a convergent medium that allows me to investigate the affective qualities of space through creating in the virtual, out of the conventional context of space-time. The making of these works all felt alienated yet intimate, forcing me to question my relationship with my body and the space it encounters.
Both Taoist and Buddhist philosophies have illuminated the nature of materiality and immateriality that are essential to my work. I am curious about the ambiguity that lies between the virtual and the real, in the absence of material, in between movements and the body. I see my works being dematerialised and deterritorialised states where people can wander, observe and remember.
Tzu, L, Chapter 41, Toa Te Chin, (trans. from Chinese by D. Hinton 2002), https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/47462-ddj-meaning-chapter-41/
Murmuration, 2020
VR animation
Flowerbed, 2020
Virtual Landscape
Flags, 2020
VR installation
Instrument, 2020
VR animation
Along The Spine, 2020
VR Drawing
