B.1990
Pocono Zhao Yu (b. 1990) based in Shanghai and Paris. Pocono received her DNSAP (MFA) from École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris.
A "newcomer", a "future long-dweller". Pocono Zhao Yu’s works focus on transforming the perspective from "self-culture" to "other-culture" and reflecting in the deep spatio-temporal framework. She translates the world through various media such as image, video, writing and installation. Based on personal experience, she reconstructs the scene by borrowing elements from semiotics, literature and related social disciplines, thus presenting a "new" narrator to question the authenticity of history as an "intruder" and explore and respond to the complex connection between the original and the copy. She also focouses on issues of identity and territorial anxiety arising from globalization.
