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# Project Description Residual Coordinates Yanqiu Yu Summary Final work My work explores the temporal and narrative dimensions of objects, moving between personal memory and institutional archives. I investigate how material culture—from everyday belongings to museum artefacts—embodies layered histories, shifting meanings, and emotional residues. Drawing on research in art history, archaeology, and object-oriented theory, I work across installation, sculpture, video, and text. I often engage with archival materials and overlooked display structures, using artistic intervention as a method of reconfiguration and re-narration. My work explores the temporal and narrative dimensions of objects, moving between personal memory... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Fine Art Graduation year 2025 The showcase is a combination of three works. This body of work traces two intertwined lines of inquiry—one rooted in personal experience, and the other in historical institutional critique. In Aftershape , I reflect on relocation and its impact on memory by recreating objects from past living spaces. Through material transformation, these pieces preserve emotional residues and function as ‘non-human witnesses’ to fading time. This process arises from the impulse to commemorate the overlooked traces of domestic life that anchor one’s sense of orientation. Parallel to this, my research extends to museums and historical collections. A.1-1928 responds to a stone RAM statue collected in the Victoria and Albert Museum, reconstructed through firsthand research and historical archives. I examine the gap between official narratives and fragmentary realities, turning archival references into open frameworks for re-reading objects. The Collector’s Prosthesis continues this trajectory by focusing on the act of collecting itself. Inspired by Chinese antiquarian paintings, I shift attention to marginal elements—bases, stands, and other ‘prosthetic’ supports—that shape the way objects are viewed and valued. These overlooked structures carry symbolic weight, extending the collector’s will and forming the unseen grammar of display. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project The showcase is a combination of three works. This body of work traces two intertwined lines of inquiry—one rooted in personal experience, and the other in historical institutional critique.In Aftershape, I reflect on relocation and its impact on memory by recr... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Aesthetics Histories Materiality Story & Myth Archives & Collections
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