Yvette Yujie Yang

Yvette Yujie Yang works primarily with lamp-worked borosilicate glass, cyanotype, and etching. She creates deliberate archives of ecological loss, fragile records designed to eventually fail.

Glass embodies the temporal paradox at the heart of her practice. Once molten sand solidifies under flame, that transformation is permanent. It cannot return to its original state. This irreversibility mirrors the logic of modern development, where progress produces local order by displacing entropy elsewhere, into ecosystems and species that have no voice in the transaction.

Yvette's conceptual framework stems from multicultural perspectives. Living and working between China, Cyprus, and now the UK, she has witnessed how industrial transformation unfolds differently across geographies and the invisible costs that accompany it. Her practice remains attentive to these losses, not from a position of moral superiority critiquing post-industrial progress, but asking how could we mourn for what was lost when preservation is no longer possible.