Yiyi Bai Caress, 2024 < USD 10,000 Acrylic on canvas Edition Unique 50.0 x 60.0 x 7.0 （厘米） 19.7 x 23.6 x 2.8 （吋） Bai Yiyi was born in Datong, Shanxi in 1992 and now lives and works in Shanghai. He recently had his first solo exhibition at Galerie PACT in Paris. His works have been collected by PCP Collection, Nixon Collection, GECO Foundation, Beijing Times Art Museum, and other major private collections and institutions. Bai's works reflect the industrialized communication, the crumpling of image information by spatial techniques of video, sentiment and narrative. His paintings come from the aesthetics of industrialized communication, reflecting his thoughts on the relationship between the identity of the crowd and the world. In the images, the color system comes from the digital screen, the texture of film is everywhere, the color dots of the advertisement offset printing imitated by the brush pointillism technique, the snowflakes similar to those in the video, as well as the zoomed-in close-ups, the blurring effect of bokeh, and so on. The artist intersperses these close-ups back and forth and creates the open-ended story clues by searching for the rhythms of an Eastern style line. Bai's paintings are more like the plot of a fast-moving movie. This is inspried by the visual pleasure of social networking, focusing on and zooming in on the close-ups in a particular shot, causing the whole scene and space to visually contract. This way of viewing is like when you are sizing up a person but focusing only on a particular accessory on their body. When the arrangement of visual data reaches a certain density, these constantly stacked shots are dissolved, resulting in a more emotional sentiment and narrative. As a member of the New Age humanity under the influence of big data and social networks, Bai mows down his own fusion sketch of the "divinity" of the new age humanity through continuous integration and visual acceleration, using himself as a purveyor.