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19071965More works: Ji graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Institute. In his attending of contemporary art activities over 10 years, he creates freely with a variety of media and uncertain experimental approaches, and his works covered the fields of performance, installation, photography, video and painting etc. Generally, he started form the objectivity of body and the falseness of identity, carrying on researches on the issues of authenticity that related to the multiple links between human's situation in reality and the cultural perspective. His early works were presented by taking subjective body experiences as performance of experience, and gradually he transferred to the interpretation of live art, by which he constructed the controlling of transformation between everyday behaviors and dramatic plots, to reveal and express the influence and views of modernity on human's alienation. The current practices of Yu Ji rely on emotional instinct rather than experience, by the boundless historical imagination and the sub-narrative reality he searches for the fragments of the evolution of things around, the dramatic effects of happenings, and the timing appearance of physical phenomena, in an attempt to make graphic solution of the humanity history, the practical politics, the game of social system, the cultural consumption, and the complexity and ambiguity of life and humanity. Thus, he could achieve the representation of the re-appearance of people and things. In short, his works try to see through the Chinese tradition, to express the disordered and ambiguous complex mentality of contemporary Chinese intellectuals when they are facing the reality of internationalization and the cultural patterns of future, in which he reveals the custom constructed by a new kind of human relations and its historic beauty with dreariness, which would presents it as a general visual form of absolute individual experience from the personal perspective.