A Map of Sensations: The Courage to Rebuild My Life
Yuting Song
Gallery 2
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Yuting Song is a contemporary feminist visual artist working primarily with ink on Xuan paper, placing the body at the center of her practice. Through large-scale, physically engaged painting, she enters an embodied creative state in which perception, memory, and lived experience are translated into fluid visual language. Brushwork, breath, and bodily movement become carriers of knowledge and experience.
Her work connects the tradition of Chinese ink painting with contemporary feminist discourse, drawing from Daoist philosophy, the cosmology of the I Ching, and the concept of unity between humans and nature, while resonating with contemporary theories of embodied cognition. Working between control and chance, she allows water, gravity, and time to actively participate in the formation of each image.
Focusing on the female body, her practice explores bodily autonomy, female subjectivity, and the impact of migration and cross-cultural experience on identity. In this exhibition, large-scale paper works and flowing ink create a visual space that is both fragile and resilient, inviting viewers to reflect on diaspora, care, and the courage to begin again.
