Yi Jin is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai. She thinks print helps her to tell stories with special physical and emotional feelings. The techniques and textures of printmaking enhance the sense of uncertainty that she wishes to deliver.
She focused on making self-publications, printmaking and illustrations.
By capturing certain fleeting emotions in everyday situations, Yi Jin's inspiration usually comes from the hidden fragments of life.
She thinks it is important to record these trivial moments because she finds that the environment she grew up in always expects her to find a linear and straight route to the destination, discouraging her from taking detours in the process.
But Yi Jin believes that on our life journey, numerous tiny things seem irrelevant to our goals or destinations.
These things are integrated with the monumental things in life, forming a special web. She would rather her life consist of such a web instead of a clear line.
Meanwhile, Yi Jin focused on the man-made objects that are scattered all over life because she believes that the traces on an object often testify to the presence of a person, whose absence, in turn, offers her the possibility of narrative and imagination.
