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. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Sydney in 2020. She lives and works on the traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people in Sydney, Australia.
Cong’s current practice in painting is personal, drawing from her various experience and identity. Her work focuses on social and cultural dislocation, and the relationship between human civilisation and nature.
Departing from traditional subject matter, Cong embraces gestural brushstrokes and the allure of uncertainty. The process of layering brings forth new subjects—misplaced colour patches, reassembled figures, landscapes away from conventional scales—where reality and imagination coexist.