Yu yoyo
Born in 1990 in Sichuan, China, is a poet and multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans poetry, painting, moving image, installation, and sound. She began writing poetry at the age of fourteen and has since continued to regard “poetry” as the core language of her artistic creation. Her work persistently pushes the boundaries of poetry, allowing literary energy to permeate film, space, the body, and conceptual practice, forming an artistic vocabulary that is highly personal and unmistakably her own.
Yu first entered the public sphere as a poet. Her early work drew attention for its language—sharp, lucid, emotionally charged, yet meticulously restrained. Since 2012, she has published several poetry collections, including 7 Years, Me as Bait, Can’t wind, Half a Person, and A Cat Is a Cloud. In 2019, her bilingual poetry collections My Tenantless Body and Against the Body were published in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong respectively. These works foreground her reflections on “body–desire–self,” revealing the piercing clarity and intensity of her language.
In 2021, Yu published her first short story collection Invisible Kitties, which later developed into a hand-drawn animated video series of the same name. The project presents tender, strange, and poetic narratives exploring the spiritual connections between animals and humans, expanding literature into the realm of moving image. Invisible Kitties has been translated into German, English, Italian, and other languages.
Yu’s artistic practice moves fluidly between literature and visual art, maintaining a strong sense of interdisciplinary freedom. Beginning with individual experience, her work explores the fluid relationships between women and the body, humans and animals, time and perception. Whether expressed through poetry, fiction, painting, animation, installation, or film, her creation is consistently rooted in the poetic: constructing an independent, self-contained spiritual world across multiple mediums.
In 2017, She resident in Vermont Studio Center, United States
In 2018，She resident in Gotland Writing Center, Sweden
In 2019, She went to the UK for a promotional tour of her English poetry collection
In 2019, She participated in the ledbury Poetry Festival, UK
In 2019, She Participated in Hong Kong International Poetry Festival
In 2024, She resident in International writing program（IWP）
余 幼幼
1990 年出生于中国四川省，14 岁开始诗歌写作。
2012 年出版第一本诗集《7年》；
2016 年出版诗集《我为诱饵》；
2019 年出版诗集《不能的风》《半个人》；
2017 年 - 2020 为纪念去世的猫创作了一百多首诗，结集为《猫是一朵云》于 2021 年出版；
同年出版首部短篇小说集《乌有猫》，发布手绘系列视频动画《乌有猫》，该小说已被翻译为德语、英语、意大利语等；
2019 年分别在英国和香港出版中英文双语诗集 My Tenantless body，Against The Body。
同时，余幼幼也进行当代艺术创作，代表作有：空间 + 诗歌 + 装置作品《一个新的盲人》。创作涉足戏剧、绘画、音乐、摄影、电影等多种领域。