Yuri Yuan
I am a storyteller who uses the language of painting. I paint surrealist scenes
featuring ambiguous, physically impossible figure/landscape relationships to
explore existentialist themes of longing and loss. Through visual symbolism,
metaphors, and magical realism, I investigate the ways in which exterior
landscapes become projections of both the viewer’s and my own psychological
states. My latest work combines personal and art historical allegories with
enigmatic narratives to create fragmented and uncanny dreamscapes. Using
imagination, I delve further into the psyche, highlighting the absurdity
between sleeping and waking, living and dying.