{"id":10159,"date":"2023-04-26T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T10:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motoco.fr\/residents\/nini-yu-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:49:35","slug":"nini-yu","status":"publish","type":"resident","link":"https:\/\/www.motoco.fr\/en\/residents\/nini-yu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nini Yu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"113\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yu Nini<\/span><\/span> is a contemporary artist, filmmaker, and performer, born in Taiwan in 1980.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"769\">She alternates between filmmaking and performance. Through the body, she stages social narratives. After initially creating performances and short videos in Taiwan and France, she moved to France to continue her research in contemporary art. She graduated in Contemporary Art and New Media from <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Universit\u00e9 Paris 8<\/span><\/span>. Deeply engaged with social issues, she creates human atmospheres by subtly observing people and situations in urban environments. She translates these observations into images, developing projects focused on the body and the violence embedded in society. Alongside this, she pursues a graphic even cartographic practice.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Artistic approach<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1274\">\u201cDrawing is at the foundation of all my creations. What I seek is a definition of drawing today. It is also an exploration through performance. I use performance to approach the limits of the body and to produce drawings. The body leaves traces\u2014actions of life. What interests me is how these traces accumulate and layer over time. There are many images of bodies and gestures in my video works; I want to play with the drawings established within the language of the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Selected Exhibitions<\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1407\"><strong data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1316\">2022 <\/strong><em data-start=\"1319\" data-end=\"1349\">You Will Always Leave Traces<\/em>, solo exhibition, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse, France<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1603\"><strong data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1417\">2021 <\/strong><em data-start=\"1420\" data-end=\"1433\">Ligne rouge<\/em>, performance cycle, FECIT Toolbox, Val-de-Vesle, France<br data-start=\"1489\" data-end=\"1492\" \/>Group Show, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France<br data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1545\" \/><em data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1559\">Un sur mille<\/em>, book publication, \u00c9ditions Clair, France<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1685\"><strong data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1613\">2020 <\/strong><em data-start=\"1616\" data-end=\"1648\">This Is the Way the World Ends<\/em>, Utopia Residency, Corsica, France<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1960\"><strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1695\">2019 <\/strong>Regionale 20, exhibition, Fabrikculture, Basel, Switzerland<br data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"1760\" \/><em data-start=\"1760\" data-end=\"1771\">Bienvenue<\/em>, performance, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre booth, Cit\u00e9 des Arts, Paris, France<br data-start=\"1845\" data-end=\"1848\" \/><em data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"1884\">2 ou 3 chaises, que je sais d\u2019elle<\/em>, performance, Museum Night, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg<\/span><\/span>, France<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"2150\"><strong data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"1970\">2018 <\/strong><em data-start=\"1973\" data-end=\"1985\">DO DISTURB<\/em>, performance cycle, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Palais de Tokyo<\/span><\/span>, Paris, France<br data-start=\"2058\" data-end=\"2061\" \/><em data-start=\"2061\" data-end=\"2087\">Nuit d\u2019hiver impitoyable<\/em>, performance, Espace des Arts sans Fronti\u00e8res, Paris, France<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2152\" data-end=\"2337\"><strong data-start=\"2152\" data-end=\"2160\">2017 <\/strong><em data-start=\"2163\" data-end=\"2182\">93 Rue Montgallet<\/em>, solo exhibition, Village Huangpu, Kaohsiung, Taiwan<br data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2238\" \/><em data-start=\"2238\" data-end=\"2270\">8 jours 2 nuits et 10 artistes<\/em> by River Lin, performance cycle, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2339\" data-end=\"2460\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"2339\" data-end=\"2347\">2015 <\/strong><em data-start=\"2350\" data-end=\"2393\">F\u00eate de naissance et obs\u00e8ques des animaux<\/em>, performance, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mus\u00e9e de la Chasse et de la Nature<\/span><\/span>, Paris, France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yu Nini is a contemporary artist, filmmaker, and performer, born in Taiwan in 1980. 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