BAI YILUO
b. 1968, ChinaSelf-taught as a photographer, Bai works with hundreds of ID-style headshots, evoking China’s overwhelmingly large population, and sewn into the form of garments, human figures, or mosaic-like grids, some with emergent patterns depicting U.S. currency, a skull, or classic Communist leaders. In these works individuals are submerged in larger formal entities, recalling the immense, depersonalized social structures that make up Chinese life. With equal aplomb, Bai photographs broken housefly bodies arranged to resemble calligraphy.
Bai also creates works in paintings, installation and sculpture.
Bai Yiluo (b. 1968 Luoyang, Henan Province) is a self-taught artist, now working and living in Beijing. Bai adds, “I don’t like giving too much explanation for my works and I hope viewers can feel free to understand them by themselves”.
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