姚清妹，1982年出生于中国浙江省，现生活、工作于巴黎和温州。2013年毕业于阿尔松别墅国立高等艺术学院，获得法国国家造型美术硕士学位；2014年获得第59届 Salon de Montrouge 评审团特别奖；2017年获得保时捷首届 “中国青年艺术家年度评选” 大奖；2018年获得巴黎第68届 “青年艺术创作奖”。
姚清妹的实践打破了表演与其场地之间的界限，常通过对公共空间进行干预，以扰乱其现实和周围环境的规范。她的创作对政治和社会问题的机制提出质疑，通过挪用和错位的形式来探索象征性形式如何获取或丧失权力。幽默在她的作品中扮演着重要的角色，她往往以滑稽剧的诗意来揭示特定问题的荒谬性。她的创作提出了抵抗的多种不同方式，剧场表演和干预在讽刺和模仿的滑稽传统交织处确立其形式，同时其架构融合了剧场布景、服装、教学法、图像和文字的辩证法，以及现代舞蹈启发的编舞。
Yao Qingmei (b.1982, Zhejiang, China) currently lives and works in Wenzhou and Paris. She achieved DNSEP with honors from Villa Arson, Nice, France in 2013, and was awarded the winner of Prixspécial du jury at the 59th Salon de Montrouge in 2014, the Prize “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” in 2017 and the 68th Prix Jeune Création of Parisin 2018.
Yao Qingmei’s practice traverses the boundary between performance and its site, frequently enacting intervention in public space to perturb the parameters of its reality and surroundings. Her art is deep-rooted in a critical reflection into the formulation of political and social questions, exploring how symbolic gestures gain or lose power through forms of appropriation and displacement. Here, humor plays an important role in her work, using the poetics of comedy to expose the absurdity of a particular issue. Offering different methods of resistance, her theatrical performances and interventions find their form in an area overlapping burlesque traditions of satire and parody, which combine with framing devices influencedby theatre sets and costume, pedagogical lectures, the dialectic between imageand text, choreography inspired by modern dance.
