Siyan Camille Ji is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Los Angeles, California. She holds a BFA in Photography from CalArts and an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California.
Ji’s work questions poetically the boundaries of imagery and reality by engaging the materiality and dimensionality of photography. To embody the materiality of the immaterial, such as human emotions and memory, Ji adopts installation, collage, and modernist techniques—“expanded photography” effective in expressing the singular materiality of the paper medium. The dimensionality of Ji’s works concerns more than the spatial composition of the visual, but the geographical mapping of the temporal—the change in materiality and methodology is a response to the aesthetic and spiritual urge to map the “memoryscape”—a metaphoric landscape formed by intersecting and parallel planes of memory. As a sojourner, forager, and most importantly, a geographer of this memoryscape, Ji constantly invites us into a space of relations through which the artist navigates a shifting urban- natural world and through which the audience is asked to rethink and relive those many connections lost to the noise in our eyes.
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