Zifei Yang is a photographer based in both Glasgow and Madrid. Her early focus was on moments and places in everyday life that blur illusion and reality, searching for the unconscious that lurks in the intuition and unseen. Since the beginning of the epidemic, she has been exploring sleep and the night, most of her work has been shot at night, deliberately avoiding human activity and focusing more on the intersections of the natural and the artificial in the midnight city – searching for the cracking limbos.
Her work focuses on the tranquility of ‘natural occurrences’ on the edge of everyday life, including loss, predation, decay, death, fear, and an infinite reality from various perspectives. By thinking about the long adaptation of humans to the circadian rhythms with the desire to conquer it, and also how people are instinctively attracted by illumination, artificial light becomes the medium in her work that links the real and the void.
Zifei tends to encourage the viewer to be able to imagine, question, and recreate through the perceptions rather than giving clear information and names to the images. To believe in something that does not exist, to be certain of a fictional reality, to see a world that has abandoned all words and definitions.