Artist Statement

My sculpture is not able to define truth, because it does not exist in representation, but in me questioning and hypothesizing those representations. In other words, the tangible sculpture is still a part of the process of my thinking, and I value more how the making process and the final piece affect me. To me, the final result of my art is intangible and completely internal.

Bio

Lingzhi Yuan is a contemporary mixed media artist from China. She has an undergraduate degree in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute and is now an MFA candidate in Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech. She focuses on creating works that explored personal and obscure feelings, some of which reflected the living experience of Chinese women. And this leads to her MFA Thesis. She explores the themes of absence and unrealized female existence in China. She is interested in how systems, technological, social, and historical, shape what is allowed to exist.