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    This image has two white walls, the left wall reads:Welcome to my masterpiece/Nothingness, the right wall reads: The room is Full of ____. The left wall has two black curtains on either side.
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    The Room Full Of _____.:The Art between Being and Not Being, Yihan Ma, 2024, multimedia

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    This image has two white walls, the left wall reads:Welcome to my masterpiece/Nothingness, the right wall reads: The room is Full of ____. The left wall has two black curtains on either side.
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    The Room Full Of _____.:The Art between Being and Not Being, Yihan Ma, 2024, multimedia

    ©the artist

Yihan Ma – MA/MFA

When I am visiting a museum, the sublimity of the work that I feel does not come from the work itself; this sense of sublimity is instead shaped by the rules of the museum. I intend to initiate a discussion on the essential meaning of museums and artworks. In my own pieces, displayed within a museum setting, I aim to explore how symbolic violence employs language, imagery, and symbols to communicate and perpetuate power dynamics.