Zhenyun Yuan

Student Name
Zhenyun Yuan

Course Name
BA (Hons) Fine Art

Project Title
Keyed-Out Being

Keyed-Out Being follows a green, digitally removable body moving through mirrors, toilets, landscapes and domestic objects. Between visibility and disappearance, the work explores the body as a container of emotion, absurdity, technology and unstable self-recognition.

After Hearing
After Hearing explores what remains after sound has been received. A stone grows a human ear, yet hearing does not necessarily lead to understanding. The work treats listening as a delayed and unstable process, shaped by language, memory and social meaning. Rather than presenting perception as direct or innocent, the sculpture asks what happens after reception: what is heard, what is translated, and what remains outside meaning.

Growing Between
Growing Between begins with a familiar human organ, then lets it drift away from function, usefulness and social readability. Two distorted hands are joined at the elbow; fingers bend, disappear, or grow from other fingers. They seem to reach, but not toward a clear destination. Touch becomes less a gesture of intimacy than a strange condition of becoming-with. The work asks what may grow in the space between connection and deformation, and whether a body can still be called growing when it no longer grows toward an accepted form.