Yixuan Wu

Yixuan Wu, visual artist, currently lives and works in New York. She received a MFA degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University and a BFA degree in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. Her practice centers on domesticity—the elusive, restrained and sometimes unsettling emotional responses tied to intimate spaces. She’s particularly intrigued by things that appear one way but being quite another, especially things that satisfy the needs for comfort, care, affirmation and protection. Wu’s recent projects revolve around her time as a caregiver for a family member. The works examine the notion of displacement through her recreation of questioned comforts, delving into the complexities of sensory deprivation related to memory loss. Often inspired by therapeutic activities designed to compensate for memory loss, her sculptural arrangements piece together recurring elements and motifs reminiscent of environmental enhancements found in senior care facilities.