Yang Yifan 杨一凡

Yang Yifan’s practice continues his exploration of how identity, bodily desire, and personal space are shaped in contemporary life. Set within dark, symbolic environments, his paintings reveal figures marked by loneliness, alienation, melancholy, and inner conflict, while retaining a quiet sense of strength.

Placed within forests, wastelands, greenhouses, and enclosed rooms, Yang’s figures occupy spaces between nature and civilization. Their bodies are physically present yet appear emotionally distant, as though partly absorbed by their surroundings. Despite this isolation, their posture and gaze suggest determination and resilience. Through sustained acts of looking and bodily tension, the figures resist disappearing and continue to search for fragments of self-recognition within unstable and oppressive environments.