Yingyao Zhao

Work

  1. A rendered female figure bound in a silver corset-like structure, with red, wounded arms, against black.
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    Entropy of Physical Restraint

    2025 · 3D modeling · Visual design · Unreal Engine 5 · Animation

    Intimate apparel as a metaphor for the constriction of the female body, traced through three stages of confinement, deconstruction, and reconfiguration.

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  2. The installation in a dark room, a perforated sphere and a 3D-printed spine glowing with strands of optical fiber, between two tall acrylic panels.
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    METAGARDEN: The Unwritten Archetype

    2026 · Interactive installation · Sound design

    An interactive installation based on the hermaphroditic Crown Imperial, in which a viewer's gaze alters the flower's digital form while a typewriter struggles to name it.

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  3. A dark machine landscape lit in red, with glowing eye-like lights around a reflective central column.
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    Silent Order

    2026 · 3D modeling · Visual design · Unreal Engine 5 · Animation

    A metaphorical "black box system" showing how care for women's well-being becomes a logic of cost control.

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