Yuyan Wang: ‘One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean’
Yuyan Wang, One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, 2021. Single-channel video, stereo sound, colour, 11 min 30 sec. © Satisfactionclip
About the Work
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean explores the lack of depth perception through a compilation of ‘satisfying videos’ from the internet. It creates an abstract narrative akin to trance and minimal music, juxtaposing the superficiality of much online imagery with the emotional depth and uncanniness of rediscovery. The video serves as a critique of the superficial and monotonous nature of modern digital culture, reflecting societal spectacle and the entropy of information overload, questioning the true essence of what we perceive and experience.
About the Artist
Yuyan Wang (b.1989; based in Paris, France) is a filmmaker and video artist. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production tracing their mutation and proliferation within the digital frameworks and representations. Through the editing process, Wang deconstructs and recontextualizes the intricate hierarchies and inherent meanings in materials, stripping symbols of their conventional paths of perception and turning them into immersive sensory experiences. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; UCCA, Beijing; the 12th Berlin Biennale; and various festivals such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards.
About EMAP x FRIEZE FILM SEOUL
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is presented in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP) and on view from 2 – 6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding across eight chapters.
