Inner Angel

Three years ago, John Yuyi put the contents of her New York apartment into storage and flew to Zurich to open an exhibition at Galerie Christophe Guye. She hasn’t had a home, in a traditional sense at least, since. The Taiwanese visual artist has been living ‘nomadically’, hopping from cities around the world for work and subletting friends’ flats along the way, never staying anywhere for longer than a month.

“I stopped paying rent in July of 2022,” she tells me over the phone from Rotterdam, where she’s currently staying with her brother. “At the beginning, I was thinking, ‘I’m just taking a short break.’ After the Zurich exhibition opening, I went to Berlin. I was so inspired being in a new city, exploring as a solo traveller, going to raves by myself. I learnt how to smoke weed during that time – even though I was already 31. I went back to New York, but I had this feeling that I still wanted more.”

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