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Yiyang Sun Emerging artist

Yiyang Sun

Artist's country of origin: Estonia

2000 Born in Shanghai,China. A craft woman gives birth to handmade films, unplaying games and puppets with digital puppetry . Sun focuses her practice on imagery of idolls through animating elephant in Liminal Spaces,creating giant puppets and ritual experiences under matryoshka structure.


Her films have been screened worldwide in 30 countries, such as Animafest Zagreb,PÖFF Shorts,Kaboom Animarion Festival, Animateka Animated Film Festival. She got award in Best Experimental Film-PIAFF Paris International Animation Film Festival and Best Audience award in Rise and Shine CEE Animation lab in 2024. She was the Jury in International Short Film Festival Nijmgen in Netherlands.

By practising proRegress actions,she starts to create refiguration of surrealism folk tales through concrete animated film during the craft of framing time. Her exploration opens up a new approach through The engagement of dematerialize, rematerialize for animating toys and “childish thing”.In the End, Sun breaks the moving images in an unexpected way and get rebirth.


Mixed media

Son to Sun:The Forever Elephant by Yiyang Sun
Son to Sun:The Forever Elephant, 2025  
200 x 300 cm

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