DYADIC | MAPJD 2016/17 | Projects

邂逅 / Encounters / Setkání

This project brings together works by Yi a photographer of chinese origin and friends he met in the UK. The project also shows how the special and intimate relationship between Yi and his friends has developed. And how people of different cultural background found a way to communicate messages and emotions with each other that they do not usually share in everyday life.

Yi first met his friends when he came to London in 2015. One year after; he decided to give five sketchbooks to five of his friends. He did not ask his friends what they should do in the sketchbooks but rather waited to see which direction this experiment would take. The sketchbooks that they shared over a period of one year proved to be a record of their memories, emotions and their special relationship.

Yi Yin comes from China, and in his culture, the word encounter can be explained in a few ways; for people who never met before, or people who meet and already know each other well, but it can also explain a short or a long-term relationship. And these books and photographs show all those kinds of encounters; fleeting moments as well as the deepening of the friendship over time.

The title Encounters is in three different languages; Chinese, English and Czech. It represents mother tongues of the people involved in this project, and their unique ways of expression.

During this project, Yi and his friends have done remarkable writing; drawing and watercolours; Yi also did a lot of beautiful photographs of them. All these works brought together show some special stories and memories shared between Yi and his friends.

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