Ye Jintian: The Shadow of Mirror
As the new semester begins, the University Arts Centre is honoured to invite internationally renowned Oscar winning artist Tim YIP to deliver a talk “The Shadow of Mirror” on campus on August 24 (Sunday). In this talk, YIP will share the path of art in the AI era from his signature perspective of "New Orientalism" aesthetics, and will present his first AIGC film, Courier along with more of his creative process.
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Activity Information
Time
14:30-16:30 (admission begins at 14:00)
August 24, 2025 (Sunday)
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Venue
Administration Building West Wing
SIN Wai Kin International Conference Centre（W201）
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Warm Reminder
1. This event is only open to audiences aged 12 and above.
2. Entering the campus through the new South Gate of CUHK-Shenzhen is the closest to the activity venue.
3. Please present your ID Card and activityposter to the security guard when entering the university.
4. No parking spaces will be provided for this event.
5. Kindly refrain from smoking on campus.
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Guest
Tim YIP
As a world-renowned art director for stage and film, costume designer and visual artist Tim Yip continues to explore and communicate his aesthetic concept "New Orientalism", which is his interpretation of ancient culture to inspire the future. He works widely in contemporary film, theatre, art, literature, and other creative fields. For Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (directed by Ang Lee in 2000), Yip won the Oscar for "Best Art Direction", becoming the first Chinese to be awarded by the Academy, and the British Film and Television Academy award for "Best Costume Design", in 2001.
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Since participating in the first movie A Better Tomorrow in 1986, Tim Yip has been responsible for the art direction and costume design of many movies for more than 30 years, Including the Deification Trilogy which has been released successively since 2023. He has cooperated with many acclaimed directors, such as John Woo, Ang Lee, Feng Xiaogang, Tsai Ming-liang, Chen Guofu, Guan Jinpeng, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong，Wu Ershan etc.
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In the field of theatre, Tim Yip has collaborated with many world-renowned practitioners and groups, including Robert Wilson, Franco Dragone, Akram Khan, Francois Girard, Zhang Yimou, Stan Lai, Yang Liping, English National Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, The Metropolitan Opera, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Contemporary Legend Theater, Legend Lin Dance Theater, Han Tang Yue Fu, Tai-Gu Tales Dance Theatre, U Theatre and more. His works have been staged in China, Austria, France, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and Israel. His directed plays Storm in Emptiness and Love in a Fallen City are a merge of video and stage art named Total Art Theatre. Yip was also the set and costume designer of Opera Lohengrin directed by Francois Girard. The opera had its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia in 2022 and was staged at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 2023.
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Yip was invited to be the stage and costume designer for 2004 Athens Olympics closing ceremony and the designer for Team China’s Olympic Podium Uniform in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Over the years, he has successively held solo art exhibitions in many cities such as Taipei, Paris, London, Amiens, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Changsha. In 2018 Yip created the Cloud project which explores themes of youth, identity and environment through costume and art installation, in partnership with Southbank Centre London. And in 2023, Yip has participated in the exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes of the Minneapolis Institute of Art as the visual director.
In 2025, Tim Yip collaborated with the Hunan Museum to launch the major exhibition Spirits in Entwined Gazes: Time-Space Reconstruction of Hunan Culture and Tim Yip’s New-Orientalism Aesthetics. Once again, as in his previous exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Tim assumed the dual roles of artist and curator, immersing himself in a multidimensional dialogue with cultural relics. Through his artistic vision of the Chinese spiritual cosmos, Tim constructed a spiritual spatiotemporal tunnel between antiquity and the present to explore the spiritual homeland. By deconstructing historical artifacts and conducting cross-disciplinary recombination, Tim uses contemporary language within the artistic narrative of “spatiotemporal reconstruction” to showcase ancient wisdom spanning millennia and spiritual archetypes consistent across ancient and modern times.
Concurrently, Tim’s solo art exhibition, Mirror Garden, made its debut in the Greater Bay Area—a collaboration with the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning—which, through Tim’s evolving multimedia artwork “Lili”, expresses an overlapping, multidimensional world where the primordial cosmos manifests in real space. Additionally, Tim’s photography exhibition Rotating at Zhangyuan’s Yuan Link in Shanghai revisits Tim’s past photographic practices and his interpretations of imagery from various dimensions, which strips away superficial layers to reveal the hidden connections between individuals and space-time, as well as his exploration of the “invisible world”.
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