{"id":263,"date":"2026-07-20T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=263"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:12:26","slug":"yuyan-wang","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/nl\/artist\/yuyan-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuyan Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yuyan Wang onderzoekt het landschap van digitale beelden. Ze distilleert uren gevonden filmmateriaal om na te gaan hoe beelden \u2013 via extractie en afval \u2013 muteren en zich vermenigvuldigen binnen de digitale en visuele cultuur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boring Billion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gebruikt online filmmateriaal om een oververhitte machine te verbeelden die achtervolgd wordt door petro-industrieel verlangen. Via geautomatiseerde processen, reparatiehandleidingen en technologische omgevingen onderzoekt de film het menselijke verlangen naar constante beweging. Glibberige, slijmerige substanties smeren tandwielen die bewegen in ritmische, bijna erotische sequenties. Bionische figuren schakelen tussen automatisme en reflex, en versmelten menselijke, niet-menselijke en synthetische materie tot een gedeelde logica van optimalisatie en vermoeidheid. Een droneachtige soundtrack, doorspekt met vervormde flarden uit DeBarges <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All This Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, werpt een meelevende blik op leven dat verspreid raakt over organische en technologische gedaanten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De titel verwijst naar de &#8216;Boring Billion&#8217;: een periode van schijnbare stilstand in de geschiedenis van de aarde, v\u00f3\u00f3r het ontstaan van complexe levensvormen. In Wangs film wordt die term ironisch: niets staat stil. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boring Billion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weigert het tedere van het mechanische te scheiden, en vraagt zich af of gevoel zelf misschien een planetaire dimensie heeft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-263","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yuyan Wang - Contour Biennale 11<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/artist\/yuyan-wang\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yuyan Wang - Contour Biennale 11\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yuyan Wang onderzoekt het landschap van digitale beelden. 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