Sublimating, Distilled Sigh
Still Lives
2023
Oil on canvas
Still Lives imagines an art historical tradition that foregrounds lives existing at a much vaster timeline. Using the traditional oil medium, Yan painted still lives of lives that are considered to be still. With her brushes, Yan animates glass creatures and circulation diagrams.
Cipher, Vaporizing and Half-Dreamed
Arrested Flight, Wings Still—
In the Form Before