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Amor Fari, 2021, Detail View by @huifreja

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"Their surfaces act as thresholds. They invite the eye toward texture, then remind us of what the photograph cannot deliver: the sharpness of crystal, the dampness of air, the sound of a mechanism, the risk of falling, the smell of a room, the duration of waiting."

Sofiya Kim (@sofiyakimmmi)'s latest review takes us inside the world of Freja Jiahui Ye (@huifreja) — whose works move between sculpture, installation, performance, sound and writing, remaining "visually inviting while refusing to become entirely comfortable."

In Amor Fati (2021), knitted fabric was transformed through six months of chemical crystallisation until it "began to resemble something mineral rather than textile." The result: a wearable sculpture that is "heavy and sharp" and restricts the performer's movement. "Each gesture has to be found first, weighed, then committed to," Freja says, "because the wrong one draws blood." At the end, the crystal garment was dissolved in water — six months of growth gone within minutes. Freja compares this to the creation of a Tibetan sand mandala, "where the time and discipline involved in making something are inseparable from the decision to destroy it."

In Condensation: A Held Breath (2026), resin cast from an abandoned lamp found in a desert village carries dust and dirt from its original surface. The lamp once allowed women living under curfew to move through the night: "it became connected to the possibility of passage."

In Damp Town (2024), Freja creates a fictional town where dampness "blurs edges, making your skin start to question where 'outside' ends and 'inside' begins."

"The colours and textures attract the eye, but they also point toward weight, decay, restriction and change. The objects look carefully made, yet they do not feel completely controlled."

Full review now available on DART Magazine, link in bio

Written by Sofiya Kim (@sofiyakimmmi)

#DARTMagazine #DART #FrejaJiahuiYe #SofiyaKim #ContemporaryArt #ArtReview #Sculpture #Installation #PerformanceArt #MaterialArt #AmorFati #DampTown #Condensation #ArtAndBody #ArtAndMaterial #EmergingArtist #ArtCriticism #SoundArt #ArtAndDecay #ArtAndMemory by @huifreja

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With Each Leap, the Rabbit Breaks a Bell’s Tail, 2024
5 interconnected kinetic multi-sensory Installations

Antique weighing scale, kinetic motor, cast aluminium, wood, metal hardware, leather, mirror, bells, seashell, hair, perfume, bicycle parts and steel components.

ASA @hfbkhamburg art residency program, Hamburg, Germany, 2024 by @huifreja

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𒅒 ALMosT HomE𒅒 Artist Feature #1 temporary exhibition
@huifreja
Freja Jiahui Ye is a multidisciplinary artist who attempts to materialize the immaterial across sculpture, installation, sound, performance, and scenography. She creates immersive spaces where hidden or marginalized narratives can emerge, revealing residues beneath surface structures such as historical sedimentation, unspoken desires, collective anxieties, and latent social fragilities, navigate between fiction and reality. Her practice combines sculptural installation and spatial dramaturgy with material experimentation, chemical processes. Engaging with politics, natural systems, philosophy, and local folklore, she investigates how sensory experience shapes perception and collective memory.

For ALMOST HOME, she will build a site-responsive installation developed on site in response to the space and theme.

🎪ALMOST HOME
Art, sound, screenings, installations, performances, DJs and late-night drifting.

🎪 Vespers, London
☘️ 26 June · 9pm–3am
👙 Tickets via @chimimora bio

See you somewhere between the dance floor and the exhibition.
poster by @huifreja

#event#london taken in Vespers Club by @huifreja

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Feja Jiahui Ye
'𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩'
2026 Kitto Art Prize Finalist

Freja Jiahui Ye is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, sound, painting, performance and scenography.

Her practice explores material transformation, migration, identity, memory and belonging, drawing on sensory experiences of her upbringing in Xiamen, China, and her movement between China, the UK and Germany.

Through immersive, site-responsive environments, Ye uses materials, sound and chemical processes to materialise the immaterial, creating poetic and unsettling spaces where memory, bodily experience and the boundaries between fiction and reality converge.

Featured artist @huifreja

Kitto Artist Prize in partnership with @the_koppel_project

#KittoPrize #ArtPrize #LondonArtists #EmergingArtists #TheKoppelProject by @huifreja

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Condensation: ᴬ ʰᵉˡᵈ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵗʰ, 2026
Resin, fibreglass, ceramic, rusted metal, screws, antique metal bells, lace, stone

Presented in Fflattening Earth, Pop-up Exhibition @outlandpublishingfair

2026.04.17-19
exhibited at @copelandparkse

Curated bY @sitnalta_2702 @archimbaldi666 & @keykeyyan @miroirproject

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Photo by @keykeyyan

#installation #sculpture #comtemporaryart #londonart by @huifreja

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𒅒 ALMOST HOME𒅒
👙26th JUNE!!!Friday, 9pm – 3am
@vespersclub ,SE15 4BQ
Peckham, London

🍀A night of screenings, live sound, sculpture, installation, performance, DJs and drifting emotional landscapes.
Programme
𐂯screenings
𐂯DJs
𐂯Visuals
𐂯temporary exhibition: sculpture/installation/performance
𐂯community

Featuring works by:
Castor Chen @catsoragone_vlaszilo
Chenyu Nina Zhou @chenyuninazhou
Freja Jiahui Ye @huifreja
Han Gao @two.eight_
Iris Jingyi Zheng @aiirisu_iris
Julia Fung @_julia_404ntfound
Lanyun Huang @finchy973

Line up Djs:
@edna_sounds
@eva.scotttt
@heavenlytds
@taigenkawabe
@two.eight_
@tongktongktong

vj @my.glorious.downfall

Screening:
Lisa Maria Baier @lisa_maria_baier
Lucie Hazzard @sealuciel
Alix Hugonnier @shaevbh
Anapaula Diaz @anapaula23_db
Minna Ellis @__minart__
Tom Heath @tom_heathh
Ioannis Gkrassos @project_antara
Hui Liu @hhhhhhui_i
Yiwei Chen @yiweii.c
@y_xing_jm
Maren Rabe @rabennest3
Loan Hutchinson @loannrosaa
@sisterr_ray
@junotwentyseven
@lauren.mcdougalll
George Duggan @duggan_g

“Almost Home” began as an open call exploring displacement, intimacy and temporary belonging. From nearly 100 submissions by artists across different places, the project has evolved into a shared environment of listening, watching, wandering and gathering.

Alongside programme of experimental film, noise, club music and visuals, this edition expands into a temporary exhibition that unfolds throughout the venue, where moving image, sound and spatial works coexist and overlap.

No fixed route. No single stage. Just fragments that almost feel like home.
curator: @huifreja

Tickets in @chimimora bio🎟️
poster by @huifreja by @huifreja

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Damp town, June 2024, London

It is a site-responsive project that brings together sound, sculpture, and spatial installation as an eerie fictional town seeping with memories and animal presence. Dampness acts as a living force, absorbing, staining, swelling, and decaying as it slowly reshapes the town.

Beside the fountain, a line of words blurred by water vapour whispers an ancient ritual: “Offer a token, and your wish may come true.” Each object offered by visitors carries traces of personal longing, sinking into the muddy water of the well. Yet no one can ever know what has been awakened beneath the surface.

A poignant horror unfolds as fragments of bodies, relics, and forgotten traces haunt the wet walls of the town. Footsteps, breathing, and heartbeats of the more-than-human accompany the space, while skeletal structures and hybrid human forms are suspended within a surreal soundscape between ruin and dream. by @huifreja

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Pò(魄), Part of Damp Town, 2024
Marble, Leather, Metal, Bone, Stone, Resin Clay
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Pò is one of the closest things to an inhabitant in Damp Town. A white spine-like form, somewhere between bone, fossil, and something still forming, rises from a four-legged metal body cut through with openings and draped in brown hide. It feels part creature, part relic, as if it has been lying for a long time inside the wet layers of this place and has only just surfaced.
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"Damp Town" is a site-responsive project that brings together sound, sculpture, and spatial installation as an eerie fictional town seeping with memories and animal presence. Dampness acts as a living force, absorbing, staining, swelling, and decaying as it slowly reshapes the town.

Beside the fountain, a line of words blurred by water vapour whispers an ancient ritual: “Offer a token, and your wish may come true.” Each object offered by visitors carries traces of personal longing, sinking into the muddy water of the well. Yet no one can ever know what has been awakened beneath the surface.

A poignant horror unfolds as fragments of bodies, relics, and forgotten traces haunt the wet walls of the town. Footsteps, breathing, and heartbeats of the more-than-human accompany the space, while skeletal structures and hybrid human forms are suspended within a surreal soundscape between ruin and dream. by @huifreja

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Over six months she let a chemical solution work its way across knitted pieces, shifting the temperature to coax the growth into crystal,

It doesn’t fit the way a wearable piece is supposed to fit. It’s heavy, edges sharp.

By the end, the performer steps into a tank of water and lets the crystal come apart. Everything that grew slowly over six months dissolves in minutes. Nothing is preserved.

Full review live on clastmagazine.com now.

Words by @harry.peg
Artist: @huifreja
Photography: @jialinghuphoto

Freja will also feature in Clast’s forthcoming print issue, out October 30th. taken in London, United Kingdom by @huifreja

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