Wu Yifan studied in Ceramic Department, School of Handmade Arts, China Academy of Art from 2013 to 2017 and received his bachelor's degree. From 2017 to 2020, she studied in Ceramic Art Department, School of Handicraft Art, China Academy of Art, and obtained a master's degree under the supervision of Professor Dai Yuxiang. "Leisure Time" won the first prize in 2018 Book Puppet Creative Design Competition, and "One Person" was selected in the 13th National Art Exhibition. She has participated in Zhuhai "Equal Emphasis on Tao and Ware -- Ceramic Art Exhibition of Handicraft College of China Academy of Art", "Shiwan Cup" Youth Ceramic (Person) Competition, "Revitalizing + Rebuilding" 2019 Tenth China Modern Handicraft College Exhibition, Shandong Art Exchange Exhibition, Hunan Liling International Ceramic Industry Expo, etc.
Wu Yifan Self-statement: I am a handicraft learner and creator with a sensitive heart. I create through emotional experience in life, and creation is the "vent" of emotion. Character ceramic sculpture creation is a suitable way to express my heart that I found in the study of ceramic art. Clay strip plate construction is the molding method I choose. Clay strip plate construction has a certain time record and sequence. In the circle of plate construction, both utensils and pottery are shaped from the bottom to the top, so it can be said that the utensils or pottery sculptures formed by clay strip plate construction are a record of a period of time.
There is a fixed sense of distance between people, and each person's perception of things is different. Sometimes, the power of loneliness pushes me forward in my study and life. This power not only is the creation of the force is also subjective motivation of face life, in work "One Person" series, confusion and helplessness is one of the most intense, idea is the interpersonal contact is very much, even the consanguinity fetter cannot lose sight of the fact that self survival and growth, namely, independent personality, independent thinking, independent of the formation of the soul. The barriers between people can never be broken. If we admit that we are alone and still face loneliness, we can truly love others.
"One Person" (1) In June 2019, Material: White pottery
"One Person" (2) In August 2019, Material: White pottery
"One Person" (3) In August 2019, Material: White pottery
I will often be in a daze to fantasize about some upcoming or strange stories, and even to fantasize about nature. I can feel nature and think about the relationship between myself and the world. When my mind is in a state of drift, I can be anywhere. I can stand in the air, float in the universe, cross the vast land, and close my eyes to see the shade of trees and flowers. Therefore, he created a series of works called "Look Far" to express some state of mind wandering thinking. The far look is taken from "when the head is corrected and the far look". On the road of life should not blindly rush forward, from time to time also want to stop to look up at the distant sky, and nature "play".
Seven yea Seven years of ceramic learning has made me have a preliminary understanding of the ceramic material, and there are still many places to learn and explore. Ceramics are fragile and hard, a blend of water, fire and earth. They are the art of nature. The close contact between the hands and the mud makes me feel safe. The study of pottery makes people become stable. Thank you for the joy and happiness that pottery brings to me.
[Academic Comment]
Yifan has a delicate feeling and a deep passion for pottery. During her postgraduate period, she has read a lot of art works and information related to the East and the West, expanded her international vision, improved her cutting-edge thinking in the field of pottery, sought for her own personality language academically, and kept trying different techniques of expression with different colors.
She has her own thoughts on the state of human nature. She created a number of figures with different expressions, trying to express the confusion, doubts and confusion of the contemporary youth towards the real society, and then thinking and actively facing the current context. In the form of artistic expression, through the special material of ceramics, to create a stage of professional academic comb, showing the expression of humanity and art, the art has a long way to go, and there is a long way to go. When you lurk and dream high...
-- Dai Yuxiang, professor and director of Ceramic Art Department, School of Handmade Art, China Academy of Art
“Look Far” (1) Material: BLANC de CHINE white porcelain
“Look Far” (2) Material: BLANC de CHINE white porcelain
“Look Far” (13) Material: BLANC de CHINE white porcelain
“Look Far” (4) 2021, Size: Variable, Material: BLANC de CHINE white porcelain
【Teachers and friends said 】
Wu Yifan is a clever and awkward girl. Her cleverness lies in her perception of things around her, but at the same time, she is awkwardly exploring the relationship between people, between people and things, and between people and nature.
Her works often give people a kind of lonely, uneasy state. If everything disappears, only time exists, then the only thing that exists is probably loneliness, everything is nothingness.
The “Look Far” series are works expressing the relationship and distance between people. It creates a group image of a group of people who are lonely in their hearts. Modern cities gradually pull people into physical distance, promote close cooperation, but make the close interpersonal relationship become "shallow", coupled with the catalytic effect of the Internet, making it easy for people to achieve "spiritual stealth" in the virtual world, gradually immersed in the virtual ideal self. On the other hand, weak links encourage narcissism and alienate people from heavy and profound communication experience, which eventually leads to group loneliness. Relationships become islands of proximity.
Through her works, she has a new thinking on the relationship between people, things, nature and society.
-- Xie Xi Lin, a close friend
“Listen • Speak”, December 201, 9 Material: black pottery
“Middle”, Size: Variable, Material: white pottery