Yeh Yi-li's Solo Exhibiton

Oct 24, 2009-Nov 28, 2009

Yeh Yi-li

Text/ Gallery100

The artist Yeh Yi-li has established her own distinctive artistic language through the creation of a series of Kuso style video works. She is particularly adept at dressing up as a variety of weird and wonderful doll-like figures, which she places in a series of different scenarios and settings. With the limbs of these characters always moving they serve as a conduit for the dissemination of artistic vitality. Yeh Yi-li uses these doll-like figures, which never blend into the surrounding environment and engage in what appears ridiculous behavior, as way of dealing with her own inability to adapt to modern life. In this way she also highlights the embarrassing existential quandary faced by people in the modern world.

In 2009, the artist has taken these characters a step further and evolved them into “Yellow” and “Blue”. Indeed, it is through these roles that Yeh launches a series of artistic hunting actions in which she takes a range of emotional relationships and utilizes them as allusions referencing the primordial fight for life between people, people and other species and even people and the environment in our civilized modern society. This is the first time the works have appeared in an interactive video format with visitors invited to take part through physical action. Yeh Yi-li also makes use of the popular computer game format to satirize the ridiculous nature of this fight for survival, thereby encouraging the audience to reflect in more depth on the issues she discusses in her work.

As with such international artists as Cindy Sherman and Matthew Barney, who are also passionate about dressing up, Yeh Yi-li has successfully opened the way to a new artistic form that transcends and combines action, video, performance artistic genres and Cosplay. She is already strongly supported by locally renowned curators, critics and museum directors and also been invited to attend a number of overseas exhibitions. In order to fully show the detailed work created by Yeh Yi-li, Gallery 100 invites you to take part in the most intriguing art activity of 2009, Kill the Rabbit. This makes full use of the unparalleled Kuso spirit of Yeh’s artistic creativity to completely transform and alleviate the tremendous pressures that are seemingly an integral part of civilized society.