https://gu-you.cc Gu You Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:08:00 +0000 https://gu-you.cc en https://gu-you.cc/Home-Image-Scroll Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:11:46 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/Home-Image-Scroll https://gu-you.cc/Info Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:11:47 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/Info GU, YOUborn 1990 in Hunan, China, based in Berlin and Beijing. guyouguyou@gmail.com ins: gu.youuu I grew up in a period of rapid social and economic development in China emphasized with cultural fusion and digitalization. I was deeply influenced by cinema, music, comics and literature. Guided by my own experiences and the journeys made between the East and the West, my works deal with questions of identity and cultural clashes associated with them, in transhistorical and transnational contexts. With these works I probe into the veiled historical and cultural convictions, conflicts and contradictions, individual and community, self-experience and mentalities behind human behaviour. The dominant medium of my artistic practice is photography that engages in peculiar analogue photography printing techniques. For me, photography is like slices extracted from a complete story, of which I tell my account through an unconventional technique I have developed during my studies. I allow the pixels to ripple, resulting in morphed images of the original content. Through the undulations of these new visual elements, the meaning of the photograph becomes blurred. This transformation has a two-fold significance to me; on one hand this is a mirroring my cognitive habitat and on the other, it is a welcoming entry point for the beholder to create similarly unique and personal interpretations. For my latest project “New World”, I have traveled through the Balkan countries inspecting the sites of post-Soviet memorials since 2018. During these adventurous travel, alongside my artistic occupations, my nationality and identity have turned into an inseparable part of my work; and my thinking became clear: My thoughts on the issue of identity aren’t about taking offense at being mistaken for the wrong nationality, nor do I intend to accuse the prejudiced behaviour towards Asians in Europe. What interests me is, rather, what lies behind the necessity felt by many to quickly categorize one another as friend or foe through perceived identities: how we, as humans, are habitually under the influence of the ever-present political power dynamics as well as contemporary media; how we are constantly immersed in the vortex of stereotype and prejudice perhaps involuntarily; and how religions and rights’ groups can often not coexist due to a conflict of interest. If we could temporarily shed the conveniently preconceived notions as much as possible, and grow a more conscientious awareness of such circumstances, we may perhaps grasp a truer understanding of others’ lives and all the complexities, and go on to treat people merely as themselves. This seems especially relevant, given the precarious and turbulent times we are living through at present. EDUCATION 2014 - 2021      Meisterschüler, Diploma Course, Fine Art & Photography, Berlin University of Arts, Germany 2009 - 2013      B.F.A. New Media Art, Beijing Film Academy, China  SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2021      IT’S ONLY THE END - Graduates of UdK, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany               ALMOST HUMAN, Common Place, Beijing, China               PARKVERBOT, Kunstraum Potsdamerstaße, Berlin, Germany               BURNING, Kunstraum Confucius Institute, Nuremberg, Germany              NEW WORLD - graduation exhibition, UdK Berlin, Germany 2020      FUTURE WITHOUT A PAST, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, Germany              MODUS OPERANDI, Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany 2019      MODUS OPERANDI, Museum für Fotografie Berlin, Germany               BLIND SPOT, LEVANT art, Shanghai, China               THE OUTSIDE WALL OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, UdK Berlin, Germany               KNOCK DOWN THE DUVET, Kronenboden, Berlin, Germany               DIGITAL IMAGE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE YOUNG ARTIST, Lang Museum, Qingdao, China 2018      AUF DER JAGD NACH DEM NIERENSTEIN, West Berlin, Berlin, Germany               THE STRUCTURE OF THE DIMENSION, Kerry · HABITAT, Qin Huangdao, China 2017      ITERATION AND BLENDING - 4th BFA New Media Art Triennial, Enjoy-Art Museum, Beijing, China               IBB-PREIS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, Investitionsbank Berlin, Germany               IMAGINARY PORTRAIT & OBJECT, Köppe Contemporary, Berlin, Germany               SEEN BY #8, Museum für Fotografie Berlin, Germany SELECTED AWARDS 2021      Nomination, Karl Hofer Stipendien, Berlin, Germany              Nomination, 25.Bundeswettbewerb, Bundespreis für Kunststudierenden, Germany                Nomination, Meisterschühler Preis, Berlin, Germany 2020      Studienabschluss-Stipendium des DAAD, Berlin, Germany 2018      New Media Art Triennial Academy Award, Beijing, China 2017      Honorable Mention, IBB-Preis für Photographie, Berlin, Germany https://gu-you.cc/Imprint Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:01:10 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/Imprint - Haftung für Inhalte Als Diensteanbieter sind wir gemäß § 7 Abs.1 TMG für eigene Inhalte auf diesen Seiten nach den allgemeinen Gesetzen verantwortlich. 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I’d prepare food and water, hoping they would stay. Still, they were always gone the next day before sunrise. Despite endless tries, nothing changed. They never lingered for me. This feeling of regret is always present in my work. The pessimist in me discourages my attempts to grasp and hold on to those treasured things in life, believing instead that “all good things come to an end”. Even in the happiest of moments, the hint of melancholy caused by this desolate consciousness never absents. Everyone has a different view on photography. Moriyama Daido said: photography for me is about trying to celebrate those few captured fragments, while watching helplessly as millions more unceremoniously slip away. I couldn't agree more. https://gu-you.cc/Burning Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:38:11 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/Burning It is fire that brought the night It is fire that summoned darkness up from the debris it dies down to will the next turmoil soon arise https://gu-you.cc/Love-Letter Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:00:32 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/Love-Letter On February 14, 1946, ENIAC, the first computer was born in the university of Pennsylvania. On May 4, 2000, ILOVEYOU virus, the first of its kind, broke out on the Internet through E-mail and spread rapidly around the world. For most people, home is a safe haven. But what is "home" to an entity created in the sea of information? If the human insecurity is said to be caused by the fear of the unknown, then this omniscient all-knowing entity, would it also feel insecure? https://gu-you.cc/New-World Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:08:00 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/New-World https://gu-you.cc/New-World-Exhibition Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:51:59 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/New-World-Exhibition https://gu-you.cc/Left-side-Navigation Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:35:35 +0000 Gu You https://gu-you.cc/Left-side-Navigation Gu You BedauernLove LetterBurning New World About Imprint