NEWS_YANG HAN

Print Editorial Feature in Aesthetica Magazine - April / May 2025

March 29th, 2025

Aesthetica Magazine is a destination for art and culture. In-depth features foreground today’s most innovative practitioners across art, architecture, photography and design. The magazine has national and international distribution and contributes to a total reach of 500,000+, with a significant online presence across the website and social media. Psychology, femininity, gender, technology and the body. These are key themes at the heart of Han Yang’s research-led photographic practice. The London-based visual artist and creative director combines elements from abstraction, Chinese philosophy, fashion, posthumanism and surrealism to build pictures that are rich in emotional depth. Her close-up portraits use visual metaphors – like broken eggs, or butterfly wings – alongside writings from Buddhist text The Heart Sutra, to explore what it means to be vulnerable, yet resilient, amidst periods of personal and global turmoil. Elsewhere, subjects stand next to withered tree trunks or cherry blossoms in shallow pools; the concept here is to examine the intrinsic connections between people, plants and their environments. All of this is executed through a distinct visual style. Han Yang consistently pushes the boundaries of genre, drawing the viewer in via symbolism, mystery and precise attention to detail.