Jules & Jim

193 Gallery

Born in 1991, John Yuyi is a Taiwanese visual artist based in New York who uses the internet and social media as both the premise and platform for much of her creative work. She graduated from Fashion design. She explores themes of the life and moment she and other human beings are living in right now which happens to be mainly taken by social media and the internet. Her works reflect the emotion and bipolar disorder of herself and the feeling of modern society by daily observation and the sensitive feeling of emotion from others. Her most well known medium is temporary tattoos.

She began her career with a swimming suit collection that connects her fashion design education with graphic content creation. Important exhibitions include: The Next Gen: John Yuyi, The Art Vacancy, New York (2018), My (Temporary) Self, Make Room, Los Angeles (2018), John Yuyi, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai (2018), Eye Sees No Lashes, TAO ART, Taipei (2021), THE ARTIST IS ONLINE, KÖNIG GALERIE, Dencentraland (2021), How to Win at Photography, Fotomuseum winterthur, Switzerland, the photographer's gallery, UK (2021), Yuyi’s Body, 193 Gallery, Paris (2022).

Yuyi has been invited to collaborate with international brands for creative campaigns and commercial projects such as Gucci, Nike, Maison Margiela, KENZO, Marc Jacobs and FENDI. In 2018, Yuyi was listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 - Asia - The Arts, and in 2020 she was listed as British Fashion Council 50 NEW WAVE: Creatives. Her works have also appeared in 9 pages of special reports in The New York Times and cover of VOGUE Taiwan.

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Li Hui is a young Chinese photographer based in Shanghai, China. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. Fascinated by double exposure, she took up photography after receiving her first film camera in 2009. Keen to understand how magic works and to find out more, Li Hui became a self-taught photographer. Her photographic work is based on constant experimentation, which is her source of inspiration.
The faces of the models remain absent from Li Hui's work. This confirms what most introverts advocate: you don't need eye contact to create a certain intimacy, the face ends up being a source of distraction. Li Hui's anonymous approach also makes sense from the point of view of her subjects. Her muses are those closest to her, and it is often the same people who appear in her photographs. Their identity is thus preserved. Li Hui has shown her work in various art exhibitions, mainly in China, the United States and Europe.