David Zink Yi

Pneuma

29 June - 29 July 2011

New York, 69th Street

Personal identity, like musical composition or the natural world around us, is not a static entity but a fluid enterprise, dependent upon deviations and constantly emerging. Working the puzzle of identity – toying with its seemingly disparate fragments and finding among them a mysterious but coherent language – is the occupation of Peru-born, Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi. In his expressive and magical art, Zink Yi conducts explorations into questions of identity and sends back dispatches from a realm that lies between reality and fiction.

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David Zink Yi

The oeuvre of the Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi revolves around themes of creation, manifestation, and the construction of identity. Born in Lima in 1973, Zink Yi left Peru for Germany at the age of 16. Drawing inspiration from his own experiences, he interrogates the complex aspects of identity construction...

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