Yitong Lu

With educational experiences in history of Modern Chinese Arts as well as Art and Design of Modern World, I excavate into potentials of an artistic conversation between these two different but intersected cultural environments. One of my focuses is to rethink about the cultural meanings in a modernized context. I experiment with cultural elements including literature, opera, language, architecture through deconstruction and reconstruction. It’s a way to find out how traditional elements can update their values in a contemporary context.

Apart from culture topic, I also focus on memories, emotions and narrative through film and installation. My narrative is mostly about a south-east city of China that I’m most familiar with. I use poetic narration, cross-cultural landscapes to build a detailed, intimate and meditative nostalgic space. I find a direction which is to trigger the diverse memories, emotions of different individuals through extremely detailed facts.

I also dig into the relationship between documentary, narrative and installation. I see installation as a more flexible and interdisciplinary media where cinematic language can be broken down into augments and generates multiple dimentions and experiences. Now I’m dedicated in the collaborated effects between the spoken and unspoken which can simply be explained as to use the absence of certain contents to generate meanings and narratives.

I seek for cultural and family roots which are embodied in my practice. I chose to study film in order to equip myself with strong artistic expression tools and language. With filmmaking, I feel both passionate and responsible to explore social issues, human relationships and emotions.