Yi Sun perceives, collects and reimagines our daily encounters. His work manifests as spatial interventions—moving barricades, strobing human-machine test interfaces, or redundant armrests on public benches—that disrupt the assumed experiential logic of designed environments. Through these carefully orchestrated encounters, he reveals the concealed narratives embedded within our seemingly rational urban infrastructure.

 

These subtly altered situations demand more than formal, symbolic, or representational interpretation, but contextual, multimodal, and generative engagement with our material intimacies—how we get along with space and why. Yi Sun’s practice excavates the perceptual frameworks that govern urban experience, making visible the automated behaviors that structure daily life.

 

While his pieces usually display an industrialized, futuristic shell—their restrained aesthetics echoing contemporary design language—they in fact carry a retrospective core. This retrograde impulse dives into our developmental history, critically examining the mechanized systems we have inherited: the city as birthplace and behavioral template.

 

From this temporal tension emerges a critical archaeology of acceleration. Through this process, Yi Sun's sculptures anchor present experience while illuminating trajectories forward, offering material resistance to our increasingly virtualized condition.