Yiyi Chen

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0.1481

Gender

Female

Birthday

27-Sep-1989

Age

(37 years old)

Place of Birth

Changsha City, Hunan Province, China

Also Known As

Chen Yiyi
Emily

Yiyi Chen

Biography

Yiyi Chen (b.1989, China) is a visual artist currently based in the Netherlands, whose practice encapsulates a variety of mediums - Ranging from painting to performance to film.

Credits

河流 (2023) Character: Performer (Daughter)
"The river Lek reminded me of the river Xiang in my hometown Changsha. I had not been home for 3 years and one of the connections with home was the poems my dad wrote me every day via WeChat. The rivers seemed equally significant for the people in the Netherlands and in Changsha. They are both a romantic connection and an important symbol of daily trade and industry. In a Wechat session my father and I simultaneously read three pairs of poems we wrote for this occasion, he by the Xiang and I by the Lek. Giving the words to the waters that ultimately will meet somewhere in the ocean. The video shows fragments of the performance which took place at the same time in Changsha and Culemborg in June. The full-length documentation is presented as a dual-screen video installation. The three poems written by me can be found on the page "Writing"."

Middelpolder (2023) Character: Self (Voice)
"Inspired by my countless walks in the Middelpolder, the video mirrors my text ‘Dream of a Dutch Sky’, unfolding the Dutch landscape through three different perspectives: the camera’s , the protagonist’s and the plane’s, capturing a wanderer’s stroll."

花开富贵, Wolken drijven met de tijd (2025) Character: Self (Granddaughter)
A three-screen video installation juxtaposing the Dutch sky, the artist's grandparents' apartment, and the cityscape of Changsha.

Yiyi Chen

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Yiyi Chen

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