Yuqi Fan is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Providence, RI, working across jewelry, photography, and painting. Her practice explores the intricate and emotional relationships people and their beloved objects, drawing inspiration from subcultures such as doll-keeping. By researching the loneliness epidemic and related psychological theories about object attachment issues, she explores how objects such as jewelry can serve as vessels for emotion, memory, and identity.
Yuqi’s work invites the viewer to engage in intimate, surreal experiences that blur the line between reality and fantasy. Her works delve into how desire and care for an object can shape our relationships with the material world.