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Taiwan

Past Resident
2022: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Artist

Ying Chiun Lee

Ying Chiun Lee is a glass and film artist whose process-driven work investigates human sexuality. Her practice focuses on the subtle details and movements of glass during its making. By utilizing these observations, she creates glass sculptures, installations, performances, and videos that speak on the fantasy of intimacy.

Ying Chiun Lee has exhibited work at GMTF Film Festival, Lybster; City Art Space and Joy Gallery, both Rochester, among others. 

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Ying Chiun Lee with Junghyun Kim
July 28, 2022, 6–7pm
2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
This piece of work portrays my experience of living through the pandemic as a foreigner in the US. The video consists of two scenes; The first scene is a view through the bottom of the glass tank. Catching the moment of molten glass dropped into the water and broke within several macro-explosions. The second part of the scene is an uranium glass object with gold leaf scattered on the top. Then two amorphous blobs of hot glass come into the frame. They dance around the object seductively. The audio is composed of a mixture of electronic sounds, news broadcasts regarding Covid, and cicada sounds from rural Taiwan.
Ying Chiun Lee, Home?, 2021, single-channel video, 1:32 min..
Ecstasy is a slow-motion video of molten glass. In the scene, the background is dark while the glass is illuminating the surrounding with heat. The molten glass on the end of a rod is turning slowly. The speed of the turning is not fast enough to keep the glass from falling. A wooden paddle comes into the frame from the left, slapping and pushing the glass from dropping. When the glass and wood meet, the heat burns the wood thus creating sparks. Sometimes the wooden pat stays longer on the glass, gently lifting the weight of the glass. As the two materials touch, the heat begins to light up the wooden paddle, creating a bigger flame than the sparks. The video is accompanied by the background sound of white waves crashing on shores.
Ying Chiun Lee, Ecstasy, 2020, single-channel video, 1:11 min..
Seduction is a short film. The video switches between two scenes. One scene focuses on the surface of the leaf while another focuses on the stem of the leaf. In both parts, a borosilicate glass lingers around the leaf, turning constantly from falling. When the glass gets closer to the subject, the heat dries out its moisture. During the interaction, the vapor process makes the leaf move up and down. This video comes with the background sounds of human breathing and bed sheet rustling.
Ying Chiun Lee, Seduction, 2021, single-channel video, 1 min..
The Teahouse is an installation with found objects, glass, and video projections. The piece is approximately the size of a three feet cube. It was set up in the City Art Space in downtown Rochester. On the site, the installation was surrounded by four layers of white sheers hanging down from the ceiling. On the white sheer fabric, a short film was projected. With the translucency of this material, the film projects through one fabric to the other side, casting a blurred image of the video. In between each fabric, there was a gap that allowed people to walk into the installation. Inside the white cube, there were nine white low pedestals. Eight of them had objects or words on them, and only the one in the middle remained empty. These were the objects that were shown in the video.
Ying Chiun Lee, The Tea House, 2021, mixed media, 42 × 42 × 42 in. (106.68 × 106.68 × 106.68 cm).
In this picture, a person is sitting on the toilet, hands holding a cell phone. A heavy glass object is rested on the gap between the two legs. This object has a rough texture on the outside that looks like rocks. On the inside, it seems smooth and glossy. The side that is facing up has an opening that shows the object is neither solid nor filled. The intimate connection between the object and skin is actually cold, heavy and rough.
Ying Chiun Lee, Living with a Hole , 2021, photographic print, 53 × 45 in. (134.62 × 114.3 cm).

Residents from Taiwan

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2024

Huang I-Hsiang

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2024

Hung-Yen Chang

Taiwan
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2023
Russia

Past Resident
2022: AES+F

Artist

Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov

Born in Moscow, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov works with sculptures, installations, and videos to explore themes of the Other, self-identity, ecology, and foreignness . Through scientific and museological collection/classification strategies, the artist deconstructs human attitude in relationship to nature, gender, and the body.

Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov has exhibited at Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz; The 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg; and Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
Artists at Work: Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov and Francesca “Frankie” Altamura
April 14, 2022, 6–7pm
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, The Moth and The Bat Flying to the Light, 2020-2021, single-channel video, 10 min..
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Trans-Siberia, 2019, installation.
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Snake sell skin, 2022, single-channel video, 10 min. .
«Other,» self-identity, ecology, and foreignness, reflecting on the processes of distance production in society as well as in nature, gender, and body.
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, worm, moth and cocoon, 2020, single-channel video, 3 min. .
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, blue creature, 2021, dance performance, 120 min..

Residents from Russia

Mikhail Tolmachev

Germany, Russia
AES+F
2023

Aslan Goisum

Russia
AES+F
2021

Ustina Yakovleva

Russia
AES+F
2020
Sweden

Past Resident
2022: IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists

Artist

Fatima Moallim

Fatima Moallim is a self-taught artist who works with performance, drawing and installation. The foundation of her performance-acts lies in spatial experience where she often appears with her back against the viewer. In Moallim’s installations, drawings expand into the room blending boundaries between the figurative and the abstract, the self and the other, memory and oblivion.

Fatima Moallim has exhibited work at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg; and KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Fall Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022
2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
Fatima Moallim, Family Album, 2021, drawing on linoleum, 79 × 64 in. (201 × 163.5 cm). Courtsey of Moderna Museet. Photo by Tobias Fischer.
Fatima Moallim, performance at Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm, 2019. Photo by Joakim Forsgren.
Fatima Moallim, Propechy of Equator Child, 2021, ink and markers on linoleum, 79 × 197 in. (200 × 500 cm). Courtsey of Ståhl Collection. Photo by Joakim Forsgren.
Fatima Moallim, Cycklops, 2022, marble, metal, and wood, 84 × 39 in. (213 × 100 cm). Photo by Belenius.
Fatima Moallim, Self-studies, 2020, public commission at metro station Zinkensdamm, Stockholm, 118 × 433 in. (300 × 1100 cm). Photo by Hans Ekestang.

Residents from Sweden

Tony Karlsson Savci

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
Studio #215

Sara Sjölin

Sweden, Switzerland
Danish Arts Foundation
2024

Hanni Kamaly

Sweden
IASPIS - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
2023