Michelle Yan is a multidisciplinary writer,  photographer  and filmmaker who is interested in exploring things that are uncertain, unshaped and unpredictable.

 

Partly shaped by her nomadic childhood spent in the remote mountains of China and the countryside of Cambridge, she has come to see how much natural elements and landscape seep into the collective psyche of the people.

 

With an experimental, poetic and subjective lens, her writing and visual works explore the non-linearity of time as memory intertwines with everyday life to create mysticism, and how human feelings can be irrational and go against who we think we are.

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​In her visual work, she focuses on the poetry and the philosophy of mundane objects and vast nature. Through playing with light and shadow, she likes to show a different angle to things we come to be familiar with, creating a dreamy, enigmatic and ethereal look to the objects that we had come to see in a particular way. In addition, she also likes to play around materiality, giving things a different texture and shape through lighting to express the inherent fluidity of the reality itself.