“Cremeschnitte” / Yan Jin Exhibition – July 24

On Thursday 24 July from 6pm to 9pm, we open Cremeschnitte, the solo exhibition of the artist Yan Jin, after a two-month residency at Homesession.

Cremeschnitte is a project exploring the dialectical relationship between language, culture, and geopolitics. Cremeschnitte is a pastry that can be found all over Europe with different names and slight variations. On this occasion the cremeschnitte, presented as a motif, is deconstructed into its constituent ingredients, each traced back to its origins and respective trade histories. Together these elements reconstitute the meaning of cremeschnitte, not as a singular object but as a layered index of cultural exchange, historical legacy, and food obsession.
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Yan Jin is an artist born in Shanghai, China. Currently based in New York, she earned her Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, Photography, Video and Related Media department. Her interdisciplinary practice often alienates objects of our familiarity and recontextualizes found materials to challenge social standards and authority and reveal overlooked facts and nuances. Her multilingual background informs her interest in language across different forms and dimensions, as well as the dialectical relationship between language and culture.
Her work has been widely exhibited and screened in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Solo and Two-Person shows include “I Don’t Want to Make Photograph Anymore” at Three Shadows Photography Art Center (2023, Xiamen, China), “Little Lies and Counterweights, Little Lies and Counterweights” (2023, New York, US) and “I Should Use A Language Not to be Betrayed” (2023, Seoul, South Korea).