Yunchao Ke, 柯云超
Artist Statement
A question I have long been drawn to is: what does it mean to be human? My practice focuses on subtle social phenomena embedded in everyday life, with particular attention to the interdependent relationships between people and objects, and among individuals.
I often use small but symbolically charged gestures, such as peeling, shedding tears, or grasping — as starting points. These actions carry emotional weight, embodied experience, and complex connections with social structures. Through installation, video and performance, I translate these experiences into immersive, multi-sensory environments that reveal their meanings on both personal and social levels.
The work remains deeply interested in human sociality and how individuals establish relationships with their surroundings. In my ongoing attempt to understand what it means to be human, I hope my work can serve as a sensitive medium, allowing audiences to re-experience the links between the individual and the collective, the body and the world. Through repetition, accumulation, and rhythmic forms, I explore how perception emerges between familiarity and difference, and how it summons hidden experiences and the traces of social structures.
b. 2000, China
Based in Hangzhou
MA Sculpture — Royal College of Art, 2024–2025
BA Sculpture — Southwest University, 2019–2023
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