MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art
Yunbo Jia
Artist Yunbo Jia (b. 2000) is from China and has been involved in various art forms, including conceptual art, performance art, cross media art installations, sculpture, painting, photography, and more. Focusing on exploring the subtle connections between human behavior, emotions, contemporary art, and society. This work aims to capture the complexity of emotions and reflect different human experiences through unique visual language. I integrate art into social dialogue for profound reflection and resonance. She began by seeking connections that evoke emotional memories, broadening her understanding of human nature and culture. The status of culture and society. Exploring emotions, memories, current social dynamics, and artistic reinterpretation from a female perspective.
At present, she has integrated into her collective memory of growing up in an East Asian family background, reflecting on how patriarchal culture has shaped her identity and emotional expression. Through in-depth exploration of personal experience, she has constructed connections between private and public, physical and social memory, and current artistic language.
Between Lotus and Breast
Surveillance Shower
The monitoring shower centers around the symbolic transformation of shower heads into monitoring and control tools. In this device, what usually symbolizes cleanliness and personal daily life becomes a cold mechanical organism – a mixture of pipes and monitoring technology. The glass eyes embedded at the end of the metal hose gaze down from above, transforming daily bathing behavior into an experience of exposure and discipline.
Porcelain Flesh
Porcelain Body “is an installation art piece that criticizes gender discipline and collective memory in East Asian patriarchal culture. Artists handcraft ceramic sculptures of young male genitalia, concretizing childhood memories of Chinese rural families’ reverence for male offspring and reproductive abilities. The inspiration for this work comes from the common oversized baby posters in rural Chinese families, which often feature naked male infants and exaggerate their reproductive organs – these visual effects reflect deeply ingrained male preference ideologies. By using ceramic tiles as a medium – an object deeply rooted in family life – artists integrate gender critique into the texture of daily life. The use of green high-temperature glaze symbolizes neutrality and vitality, resisting binary gender gaze and objectification, consistent with feminist artistic strategies that question representativeness and power.
The Return Gift
The Return Gift （Hui li ） is an installation that explores the entanglement of mother daughter relationships, consumerism, and emotional discipline. The artist collected every shopping receipt she received abroad, including receipts for daily shopping and European travel, carefully rolled them up, encoded them, and stored them in a square gift box. This box not only symbolizes gratitude to the mother, but also represents the pain bound by consumer culture and family responsibilities. These fragile paper materials, labeled with precise values, are both remnants of consumption and tools for social measurement.
Milk
Milk “uses the imagery of breasts as a medium to explore my connection with nature, especially trees the physical relationship between them. Breasts are not only symbols of nutrition and nourishment, but also carry emotions the complex projection of desire, social discipline, and gender politics. I tried photography and sculpture sculpture and behavioral performance, recording the growth process of trees under the metaphor of “love and nourishment”. Furthermore, by utilizing biodegradable materials, we will explore ethical awareness and sustainability continuous emotional expression. The work aims to awaken the audience’s understanding of the origin of life and sexuality deep perception and reflection on the intimate and subtle relationship between politics.
