Bobby Yu Shuk Pui

Exploring the intersections of body, memory, and cultural translation, Bobby Yu Shuk Pui creates immersive narratives that reflect on identity and heritage. Her practice navigates between personal experience and critical inquiry, blending humor, tenderness, and nuanced observation to create layered narrative environments that probe identity, heritage, and belonging. Working across moving images, installation, performance, and text, Yu explores how trauma and intergenerational silences shape language, gesture, and perception. She is drawn to transitional spaces—thresholds between languages, identities, health and illness, or the living and spectral—using these zones of rupture as opportunities for reflection, repair, and transformation. Her studio operates as both laboratory and ritual space, where private and collective experiences converge and inform one another. While her work engages with challenging themes, Yu often employs humor as a tool for resilience, allowing small, sensory gestures—a mispronounced word, a fleeting bodily slip, or shared meal—to become moments of connection and transformation. Her practice foregrounds relational and embodied research, emphasizing how intimate narratives and speculative imaginaries can coexist to imagine alternative possibilities. Yu collaborates with migrant communities, women’s collectives, and family members, creating works that inhabit liminal spaces between reality and imagination, inviting audiences into processes of disassembly, reconfiguration, and subtle resistance. ...