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Emma Yi

Emma Yi makes films, videos, photos and new media artworks. She completed her MFA degree in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice at The City College of New York. Having a bachelor’s degree in Literature of Film, Television and Theater and a master’s degree in Communication Studies, her ideas are multi-disciplinary and grounded in different fields, such as sociology and anthropology. Through utilizing and de-familiarizing crucial moments of everyday life as materials of artistic practice, her works are often conceptual, including conflicts inherent to human nature, functions of objects, hidden power and social construction, based on post structural theory. Many of her time-based works are episodic, containing different characters: most of whose narratives parallel with each other, yet connect in a spiritual way.