Yuqing is an artist born in Chengdu, Sichuan and currently based in London. Her practice spans moving image, installation, public participation, painting, and text.
Her work questions how we produce ‘images of opacity’, and through a multi-sensory image-making process, she weaves memory, mythology, and fantasy into visual forms. She explores the intersections of multiple realities and diasporic experiences, mapping a cosmology of symbiosis with ghosts, alienators, and more-than-human matter.
She often uses the methodology of speculative fiction to reimagine power structures within historical narratives and to experiment with decolonial way of storytelling. Drawing inspiration from post-apocalyptic sci-fi, mythology, and internet fragmentation (such as fan fiction, social media ), she seeks a sense of belonging and sentient passage within worlds entangled with more-than-human beings, capturing moments of intimacy, structural trauma, and desire.
At the same time, Yuqing considers the process of image-making as a diffractive practice of kin-making. She is also part of the long-term collective project If Splash As Your Whistle, which explores queer and diasporic journeys through moving image and artist film.
Selected Exhibition and Screening
2025. SanDianShui, tofu space, Copenhagen, DK
2024. Harvest the fruits of monstrosity, Queer East Film Festival, London, UK
2024. Soft and Hard, The Art house, Wakefield, UK
2023. Print , Print, Print, Lux Moving image Centre, London, UK
2023. Speculations on Sinofuturisms, The Wrong 6th Biennale, Online/US
2023. Short Competition, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, DE
2023. If splash as your whistle, Goldsmith CCA residency space, London, UK
2023. Soft and Hard, Bermondsey project space, London，UK
2022. Writing as part of Railing condex, Current plans, HK
2022. Endless insight, XIXI LIVE, Hangzhou, CHN
2022. We won‘t stop showing, Set space, London, UK
2021. Chiri photograph prize, Beijing, CHN
2021.Near future, Zhejiang Art museum, Hangzhou, CHN
2020. Double interval, Brook books, Huangshan, CHN
2020. Its time to reduce the backlog, Latitude gallery, New York , US
2020. may may then bye bye, The Fart space, Hangzhou, CHN
2019. Wild grass, CAA museum, Hangzhou, CHN
2019. Inter-Youth Art exhibition, CAA museum, Hangzhou，CHN
2018: Art book in China, Modern Art museum, Shanghai，CHN
Screening Curation
2025. [Un] imagery sword, Queer East Film Festival, London, UK
2024. Image under the ground, Queer East Film Festival, London, UK
2023. If splash as your whistle ******? , IKLECTICK Lab, London, UK
2023. If spalsh as your whistle vol1 x Gourdcanteen, Goldsmith CCA resiedncy space, London, UK
Publication / Review
Artistic Narratives of Fifteen Parallel Universes ARTnews
If splash as your whistle review by Cindy Huang The BitterSweet review
Splash of queerness Onlychild Magazine
脉络：Railing Codex Pararailing
Invisible Observed Zine. Royal College of Art
<Weather：Rain > DREAMERFTY press
Talk
2024, Screening Artisr talk, Queer East Festival, London, UK
2023, Screening Artist talk, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, DE
Award
2024. Ranran Young Artist Priza UCCA, shortlist, Beijing，CN
2021. Hyper Youth prize nominated, Imagokinetics, Martingoya, Hangzhou, CN
Residency
2025, Set Summer Residency, Set Space
2024, The book of Earth, Fangzhi novel & AC lab, Yunnan, CN
Teaching
Education
MA, Royal collage of Art
BA, China Academy of Art
Works
The Futora, (ongoing)
Tentacle Eyes
Pores paths
Endless tender
[0]phelia：primordial ooze
A black cloud is landing on a rock
A polar day 北极日
Soft body folded time
Wandering
Programming
If splash as your whistle
* (A collaborative programme)
* (un)Imaginary Swords ☆
* Image under the ground
Virtual studio
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