Yilina Yang positions her sculptures between the archaeological and the futuristic, both of which point toward a collapse of time. Her work attempts to articulate a contemporary sense of emptiness stemming from an unstable present shaped by global change and technological acceleration. These conditions inform how she observes vulnerability, desire, and impermanence beneath surfaces of beauty and excess. Through beautiful yet dangerous forms, her work reveals how the lure of vanity leads us into silent traps of nothingness. Drawing from traditional Vanitas paintings, historical hunting trophies, and fragments of
contemporary culture, from nostalgic fashion to digital ephemera, she suggests that beneath the seductive gleam lies a quiet fear of impermanence. By transforming this fear into tangible forms, she believes that it is through the juxtaposition of beauty anddeath that we can perceive the intensity of life.