Zuya Yang

Lens-Based Artist, Bookmaker
Brooklyn, NY


Fine Art
Mimicking Nature
Pieced
An 1816 Summer
Qiong Hua - ongoing
Unititled - ongoing
In Between Rustles

Books
Sugar Water (1)
This Appears to Be A Tacit Agreement Between Us
Touch It: Where We Call Home
What You See Is What You Get - Catalog
Photo Brick


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CATEGORY:   [All] [Photography] [Installation] [Animation] [Collage] [Art Direction] [Design]
Mimicking Nature

[Mimicking Nature] is a body of work that investigates how human beings understand and interact with nature in educational institutional spaces, such as zoos, aquariums, and museums. Designed to replicate the natural world, these institutions serve purposes including education, entertainment, and natural and historical preservation.
    In The Temporality of the Landscape, Tim Ingold describes landscape as a dynamic and emergent process of transformation and adaptation, arising from the ongoing interactions between people and their environments. Drawing from this perspective, this project examines how landscape is influenced by collective consciousness, functions as a dominant carrier of human experience, and constructs knowledge and meaning. The project specifically focuses on photographing how these institutional spaces are formally created, especially how they are oriented and developed. Considering factors such as weather, light, and air, these observations reveal how humans collect, preserve, and display natural subjects with cultural and historical significance.
Photography, Installation


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