Yuqi Fan

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Yuqi Fan is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New York, 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.












Hand-held Mirror

UV printing on mirror, resin, spray paint

2025

Doll-keepers view their dolls as close companions, and at the same time, the dolls are a reflection of ourselves. By utilizing the mirror, a reflective surface, this series of works incorporated the viewer’s figure with itself. The body of a doll is often an idealized depiction of a real human. We are looking at the reflection of ourselves when looking at the doll.