Accent Sisters — Youyi Echo Yan

What If We Lose the Ground
February 8 – 25, 2024
Curated by Yuyue (Eunice) Chen
Accent Sisters, 157A First Street, Studio 206, Jersey City, NJ
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Evolution on the XYZ-axis
2023
Single channel video 5:26 min (color, sound), headsets, pine, plywood, resin
Installation dimension variable

From Curator Eunice Chen:

“Imagine your body floating, falling, and swirling in mid-air; the lines of the horizon you see would break up, twirl around, and superimpose. Traditional modes of seeing and feeling are shattered. As Hito Steyerl wrote in In Free Fall: Thought Experiments in Vertical Perspective, “We cannot assume any stable ground on which to base metaphysical claims or foundational political myths. At best, we are faced with temporary, contingent, and partial attempts at grounding.”
What If We Lose the Ground presents a new approach to understanding the body's navigation, expanding the perception of spatial and experiential dimensions. By positioning the body as a reference point, the artists construct a coordinate system that mediates material and spiritual realms.
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In the trajectory of human evolution from crawling to upright dominance, Youyi Echo Yan‘s video installation offers an immersive exploration into the marriage of death, desire, and the vertical evolution of the human form. The piece navigates the axes of existence, intertwining the past, present, and speculative future.”

The Altar of Hair Loss
2022
PLA plastic, oyster shell, salt, paint, freshly cut human hair
2 x 6 x 4 inches

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