Zhu Ives Yifu

About

I operate in the fissures of collapsing systems, where borders grow porous and authority falters. My practice emerges from these unstable intersections, transforming theoretical frameworks into tangible encounters. Using memory as both a weapon and witness, I dismantle institutional hierarchies through curated disruptions that challenge passive observation. Space becomes a contested ground where dominant narratives fracture to reveal suppressed histories.

This work thrives on controlled tension between order and chaos. Each intervention functions as a deliberate provocation, inviting participants to complete unstable circuits of meaning. I collect what power discards, fragments of cultural memory, marginalized voices, and abandoned architectures, and reassemble them into living critiques. The resulting installations resist easy categorization, existing instead as active sites of negotiation between past and present, control and resistance.

I create not to provide answers but to sustain necessary questions. My art ignites slow-burning confrontations with historical erasure, demanding engagement rather than offering resolution. These are not monuments but activated thresholds where new possibilities emerge from the ruins of old certainties.

I shred absurd propositions into fragments,

clutching the antidote named “defiance” as I dream.

If vanished existences cannot soothe time’s scars,

I’d rather seal my life inside a coffin.

Oh, my Sisyphus.
I am Sisyphus.

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