Yiming Clara,
As an interdisciplinary artist, she is interested in how forms of language—utterance, noise, color, gait, space—construct the fabric of our reality. Interrogating how modes of seeing and being are constructed and how their supposed solidity and permanence can be unsettled, she turns to construction materials and found objects, using sculpture and photography to render questions in material form. Propelled by a cross-continental upbringing and its constant reshaping of linguistic, moral, and emotional meaning, she seeks grounding beyond place and tongue, arriving at the only language that feels untethered: the sensory world.
Her work has been shown at Climate Control Gallery and FOG Fair (San Francisco); she has worked as a studio assistant for Laurent Grasso (Paris) and Roxy Paine (New York), and as a research assistant for Darcy Grigsby and Winnie Wong (UC Berkeley).
On Objects and Questions