YAN Dafu
b. 1994
YAN Dafu, 1994 born in Changde city, Hunan Province, China. He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in China in July 2016. Then, In January 2020, he graduated from the Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London with a master’s degree. Now, he main works and lives in Hangzhou and Shanghai.
The media of his works include installation, painting, and moving images. The main context of the works is related to abstract social issues, especially the interactive relationship of energy, matter, and information in the context of globalization. He hopes that it can be transformed into visual media works with subjec- tive aesthetics through the study of specific problems.