Cong Yu
2024
Sanctuary of a Wanderer
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2023
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Cong Yu 郁聪
Cong Yu was born in 1998 in Nanjing, China. Cong completed a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Sydney in 2020. Currently she lives and works on the traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people in Sydney, Australia.
Cong’s current practice in painting is deeply personal, drawing from her experience and identity in various contexts. Through focusing on themes of social and cultural dislocation, and the relationship between human civilisation and nature. Cong’s work departs from traditional subject matter, embracing gestural brushstrokes and the allure of uncertainty. The process of layering brings forth new subjects—misplaced colour patches and reassembled figures, objects, and landscapes that depart from conventional scales. This new realm of landscape creates a space where reality and imagination coexist.