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Email: yilinsheng10@outlook.com
Instagram: shakyshaelyn
My name is Yilin Sheng, currently a BA Photography student at Kingston University. My work explores the expanded possibilities of visuality and image-making, navigating the boundaries between what is visible and what is perceptible. For me, contemporary art photography offers a way to reconstruct the notion of 'objective reality'. As Levine wrote, “Simulation is more real than reality. Reality is an overrated hierarchy.” This act of reconstruction and simulation allows me to question the assumed objectivity and authenticity traditionally associated with photography.
Even in an age saturated with mechanical and technological reproduction, I remain deeply affected by the "presence" of the artwork. As a photographer and image-maker, I seek to assert my presence within each piece, both through surface manipulation and the deeper conceptual layers beneath.
Photography, as a depictive medium, cannot fully restore or embody abstract concepts. This inherent distance mirrors the gap between perception and illusion, a space I find both honest and comforting. It is in this ambiguous zone that my creative practice resides.