Yao Mou In

Yao Mou In is an artist interested in the amorality of virtual fantasies within the ACG (anime, comic and game) subculture. Through her work, she looks to reconcile the fleshy body with its digital image in an age of computer-generated perfection, parasocial relationships and the extreme dysphoria these conditions produce.  By exploring the multifaceted nature of consumption (consumer, consumable and consumed), Yao Mou In questions our desire to self-objectify. Her artworks primarily operate within a tradition of expanded figuration, using historic and contemporary models of image production to interrogate this extreme desire. Using materials such as glitter, rhinestones, whipped cream glue and anime figurines, Yao explicates what we associate with mass production, a faux-sense of immortality, plastic eternality. She holds an MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Painting.

Personal website.