Zhou Yiyan

Zhou Yiyan works on diverse materials with a view to combining opposites. Bringing together porcelain and bronze, exploiting the contrast of their respectively smooth, rough, shiny and matte surfaces, she manages to achieve unions that seem at once impossible and yet harmonious.

Designed like sculptures, her works combine the delicacy and fragility of porcelain with the sheer strength of metal, giving off both warm and cool reflections under light.

The complex interlacing of connected forms, both constructed and deconstructed, augments the inherent abundance of such a combination.

Zhou Yiyan’s work expresses the possibility of reconciled alliance between differences, a metaphor for human relations as a renewed source of strength and beauty.

Zhou Yiyan studied art and design at Shanghai Normal University and fashion design at Studio Berçot in Paris. Her work has been praised for its beauty and originality, and in 2016 she won the Ateliers d’art de France Young Creative Craftworker’s Award.