Yang Liuxizi ( Irina ) is a Chinese artist and curator living and working in Düsseldorf. Her works encompass video installations, performance art, prints, texts, and animations. They merge reality and fiction, exploring through the language of art how stories and images can influence and stimulate emotions and the subconscious. Her creations often stem from personal experiences and dreams, pushing the boundaries of sensory perception to their limits. At times, she herself takes on the roles of characters from her dreams, inviting the audience to join her in exploring imaginary, upcoming, or past scenarios.

From her perspective, fully experiencing life is a necessity for artistic creation, while dreams serve as an essential gateway to extraordinary worlds. In dreams, one can transcend the limitations of everyday life and experience different roles and paths. She hopes to transform dreams into a kind of cinema, enabling viewers to momentarily escape the constraints of reality, calm their restless minds, and extend fleeting moments into eternity during their time of observation.

Yang Liuxizi’s works are often closely tied to collective memory, cultural narratives, and speculative storytelling. She is particularly interested in how personal and public dreams function as emotional and psychological landscapes, reinterpreting shared experiences and memories. By combining her personal experiences with a broader collective imagination, she creates immersive dreamscapes that challenge traditional narratives and invite the audience into a realm of imagination. In her art, the ephemerality of dreams and memories engages in a dialogue with eternity, weaving a lasting, hybrid narrative of reality and fiction.

杨柳西子（Irina）是一位生活工作于杜塞尔多夫的中国艺术家与策展人。她的创作涵盖影像装置、行为艺术、版画、文本及动画，通过虚实交织的叙事，探索故事与图像如何以艺术语言影响并激发情感与潜意识。作品常源于个人经历与梦境，将感知的边界推向极限——她时而化身梦中角色，邀请观众共同游走于虚构的、即将发生的或已逝的时空场景。

在她看来，充分感知生活是艺术创作的必需，而梦境则是通往异质世界的重要入口。梦中人可以超越日常经验的禁锢，体验不同身份与命运轨迹。她试图将梦境转化为一种“影院”，使观者得以暂时挣脱现实的桎梏，在凝视的片刻中安抚躁动心绪，将须臾延展为永恒。

杨柳西子的创作常与集体记忆、文化叙事及推测性虚构紧密关联。她尤其关注个体与集体的梦境如何作为情感与心理的景观，重新诠释共有的经验与记忆。通过将个人体验与更广泛的集体想象相结合，她打造出挑战传统叙事的沉浸式梦境空间，邀请观众步入想象的国度。在她的艺术中，梦境与记忆的短暂性与永恒性展开对话，编织出真实与虚构交织的叙事。