Bai Yiyi (1992)

Bodies in Flux

Up-and-coming, promising Chinese artist Bai Yiyi creates works where the outlines of people and objects dissolve into ambiguity, echoing the way digital images blur as they circulate online. By softening boundaries and using pointillist marks that resemble screen pixels, printing dots, and video noise, he merges the virtual and the real, transforming each painting into an open, shifting narrative space.

Within these layered compositions, fragments of skin, fabric, and drifting textures become clues in a constructed visual field. Their accumulation generates imagined scenes and storylines, revealing the hidden mechanics of narration. In a media-saturated world where truth and illusion overlap, our perception and memory grow unstable. His work captures this fluctuation. Visual signals behave like energy fields, forming condensed pockets of awareness where memory, virtual imagery, and lived reality collide.

Across the series, imagery melts into dense, dreamlike atmospheres. Colour moves like a living substance. Sometimes smoky and muted, other times bright and electric, suggesting forms that appear and vanish before they fully materialise. Suspended between the natural and the synthetic, the paintings evoke landscapes, bodies, and objects without solidifying them. Rather than offering fixed meaning, his work invites viewers to navigate drifting visual currents, tracing the subtle movements and entanglements that shape how images and memories take form.

November 2025