XINHAN Yú

Chinese. Born in 1996 in Nanking, China.

 

Xinhan Yú works with video, installation, and image-based media. His practice focuses on power structures and institutional violence. He treats violence as an embedded systemic logic. Through his work, he investigates how power shapes identity via technological, symbolic, and routine mechanisms. A consistent preference for rough textures, humor, and bold forms of expression defines his aesthetic. Recurring elements such as childhood imagery, public authority, internet culture, and video game systems run through his projects. These components allow him to examine the tension between personal experience, collective memory, and technological structures.

His work avoids direct critique, moral positions, or emotional release. Instead, it forces viewers into a viewing structure controlled by a system. Within this framework, audiences gradually recognize they are more than just witnesses to violence. They see themselves as trained and disciplined participants within its mechanisms. By constructing systems that appear calm, repetitive, and consistent, Yú reveals how power is continuously reproduced and sustained within everyday visual and technical frameworks. 

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Xinhan Yú, Invisible man, 2021
Silicone sculpture with vocal audio, electrode stickers and stage curtain
270 x 130 cm

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Xinhan Yú, You waved the whip, 2020
Electric motor, silicone sculpture, carpet and short whip
85 x 30 x 50 cm

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