My work explores the relationship between struggle and support, capturing the fragile balance between stability and collapse. Using materials such as paper, fishing line and plaster cloth, I create fragmented human forms that appear suspended, restrained or disintegrating.
Light and shadow play a vital role in shaping their texture and conveying emotions, emphasizing their fragility while also giving them a sense of emptiness, vulnerability and loneliness. Several incomplete human sculptures fall to the ground, with only fragments of the complete body remaining. The dim environment casts deep shadows and weak lights, emphasizing the collapsed image. The figure looks abandoned and rebuilt, with parts of the limbs decomposed, but there is still a force that keeps it standing.
By presenting the human body as an unstable, incomplete structure, my work reflects the theme of fragmentation, incompleteness and conveying different emotions and strengths.
Yiqi Shi is a student at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has a great passion for photography and art creation, and she creates many works in this mood, including but not limited to portraits, installations, and street photography. Her installation works contain a lot of meanings about emotions, and she uses different media to show different emotions to the audience.