Vin is a random decision I made right before my journey to the US, in the summer of 2022 when I had to fill a bunch of formats with a blank called “preferred name”.  

Ye is another random decision made by someone else, tracing back to a considerable length of human history. For some irrelevant reason it passed down and became my last name.

Art is one of the few domains where my flaws, weakness and negative experience can be transferred into something valuable

I’m commited to none of the three above.

My favorite things


2021
Bean sprouts, LED diodes, Guitar strings, electrified fish tank



There was a long period of time during the covid that my art practice was all about the relation between objects, time and me. I think it’s because I spent most of my time with them, observing, thinking, and developing a way to kill the time. 

Bean sprouts is a cheap food source, which I don’t even have to buy. LED is the cheap substitute for neon in my country, I call it the fake neon. Those used guitar strings were kept by me for years. All of them are some small threads of my life, then one day I suddenly found these three little things have very same shape. 

I started to think about the status of being existing, and somehow, to me it means being constantly changing and exchanging, no matter of the property of the material ­— metal or organic, still or kinetic.  

There were a lot going on in this container I made ­— I called it an ecosystem box. The bean sprouts were trying to reaching to the water to get more nutrition, but they died soon after their roots were able to contact the water because that was electrified. The metal strings got rusty in the water, that rust then polluted the water and made the LEDs turn dark.