Yuxuan Shao

Yuxuan Shao born in Fuzhou in 2005, currently lives and works in London. His artistic practice spans painting, text, sound, and public art. Having moved from China, Canada and the United Kingdom, he became acutely aware of how the rapid shifts in cultural environments and the translation of languages shape distinct patterns of information flow, each reinforcing a unique mode of reality manipulation.

In an era where the velocity of information accelerates the superficiality of image perception, the authenticity of reality has become increasingly dependent on algorithm-driven distribution systems.

For Shao, the allure of images does not lie in their origins or the narratives behind them, but rather in their elusive and spectral nature.Therefore, he began to turn his attention to non-systemic perception under the inseparable relationship between individual life mechanisms and systemic regulatory mechanisms. Taking a stance that prioritizes surface appearances, Shao neither indulges in meaning construction nor seeks to uncover a more authentic reality. Instead, he employs methods of observation, appropriation, and parody to subvert familiar images and textual content. Influenced by electronic music and AI technology, his practice collaborates with diffusion models to simulate visual noise and transform it into a form of visual ambient. By deliberately generating his cringey aesthetic, he exposes the fractures within simulation itself.