Ruan Yuelai

Ruan Yuelai

China

 

Ruan Yuelai received a bachelor’s degree in free plastic arts from the Wilhelm de Kooning Academy of Arts, Netherlands (2001—2005); a master's degree from the St. Jones Academy of Fine Arts, Netherlands (2005—2007); and in 2017, a PhD from China Academy of Art. He is currently a teacher at the School of Sculpture and Public Art of CAA, deputy director of Department of Public Art and director of the Landscape Installation Studio of CAA, deputy secretary-general of Zhejiang Sculpture Institute, and director of Zhejiang Association of Creative Design.

With “Methodology and Oriental Studies of Public Art” as the core research direction, Ruan Yuelai takes advantage of the characteristics of cross-border and integration to explore public art and landscape installation art combining multimedia with the times. He participated in the design project of the Zhejiang Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the overall exhibition design of the China Pavilion at the 2015 World Expo in Milan, Italy. Ruan was awarded the 2014 Global Public Art CoD + A Public Election Award in the United States and the 2011 Shanghai World Expo Advanced Collective Award. The 2012 work Yubo Memory was awarded the Hangzhou People's Government Collection Certificate. In 2013, Ruan won the China City Sculpture Project Excellence Award. 

 

Cache Forest

Mixed media including mantle, plastic fiber, metal, wood, LED screen, etc.

250 × 450 × 1000 cm

2022

 

“Cache”, in the context of computer technology, is used to quickly search, check, transmit, read and write data in memory space. It was born as a bridge that connected the time difference between high-speed transmission and temporary storage. "Being Theoria" caters to the temporal attributes of artistic creation, with a greater emphasis on field, landscape and space concepts behind it. The creation of plastic art, or focusing on technical practice, is always inseparable from the relationship between sensory perception and field space, even in its diverse forms. "Being Theoria", if mapped to the context of human life, is about the relationship between perception and the state of the body's self-cognition. Cached data is transmitted very fast, but during power outages, all data is instantaneously cleared and it is the fastest carrier to disappear. The memory accumulated by human beings through the perception of the world is also a contradictory medium like “being theoria”, which is so real and immediate, and illusory and lagging. The artist hopes to construct the invisible weaving and perceptual memory between human and space, human and the world through the systematic perception of vision, hearing, touch and even smell. The work adopts a three-dimensional cache forest combined with embedded miniature eye, nose, mouth, ear and other symbolic models, sets up sensors in each model, and constructs a multi-sensory dialogue between the audience and instantaneous perceptual memory in the form of an interactive image installation.

Co-artist: Gong Guangshun

Team members: Zheng Shangzhi, Jiang Yulong, Zuo Xiangrong

Cache Forest

Mixed media including mantle, plastic fiber, metal, wood, LED screen, etc.

250 × 450 × 1000 cm

2022

 

“Cache”, in the context of computer technology, is used to quickly search, check, transmit, read and write data in memory space. It was born as a bridge that connected the time difference between high-speed transmission and temporary storage. "Being Theoria" caters to the temporal attributes of artistic creation, with a greater emphasis on field, landscape and space concepts behind it. The creation of plastic art, or focusing on technical practice, is always inseparable from the relationship between sensory perception and field space, even in its diverse forms. "Being Theoria", if mapped to the context of human life, is about the relationship between perception and the state of the body's self-cognition. Cached data is transmitted very fast, but during power outages, all data is instantaneously cleared and it is the fastest carrier to disappear. The memory accumulated by human beings through the perception of the world is also a contradictory medium like “being theoria”, which is so real and immediate, and illusory and lagging. The artist hopes to construct the invisible weaving and perceptual memory between human and space, human and the world through the systematic perception of vision, hearing, touch and even smell. The work adopts a three-dimensional cache forest combined with embedded miniature eye, nose, mouth, ear and other symbolic models, sets up sensors in each model, and constructs a multi-sensory dialogue between the audience and instantaneous perceptual memory in the form of an interactive image installation.

Co-artist: Gong Guangshun

Team members: Zheng Shangzhi, Jiang Yulong, Zuo Xiangrong

Cache Forest

Mixed media including mantle, plastic fiber, metal, wood, LED screen, etc.

250 × 450 × 1000 cm

2022

 

“Cache”, in the context of computer technology, is used to quickly search, check, transmit, read and write data in memory space. It was born as a bridge that connected the time difference between high-speed transmission and temporary storage. "Being Theoria" caters to the temporal attributes of artistic creation, with a greater emphasis on field, landscape and space concepts behind it. The creation of plastic art, or focusing on technical practice, is always inseparable from the relationship between sensory perception and field space, even in its diverse forms. "Being Theoria", if mapped to the context of human life, is about the relationship between perception and the state of the body's self-cognition. Cached data is transmitted very fast, but during power outages, all data is instantaneously cleared and it is the fastest carrier to disappear. The memory accumulated by human beings through the perception of the world is also a contradictory medium like “being theoria”, which is so real and immediate, and illusory and lagging. The artist hopes to construct the invisible weaving and perceptual memory between human and space, human and the world through the systematic perception of vision, hearing, touch and even smell. The work adopts a three-dimensional cache forest combined with embedded miniature eye, nose, mouth, ear and other symbolic models, sets up sensors in each model, and constructs a multi-sensory dialogue between the audience and instantaneous perceptual memory in the form of an interactive image installation.

Co-artist: Gong Guangshun

Team members: Zheng Shangzhi, Jiang Yulong, Zuo Xiangrong

 

 

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