Yiwen Gong
Bio
Yiwen Gong is a student who majors in New Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She was born and raised in China and is currently working in the area of overseas e-commerce. She enjoys creating visual and digital artworks. Yiwen created the sculpture, Fast Food (2021), which revealed the overdoes of medicine and the documentary, Leader of the Flock (2020), which unfolded real nomadic life.
Fast Food
This work is about the overdose of medicine. Many pharmaceutical companies over-advertise medicine and health products to reduce people's resistance and to increase sales. However, they completely ignore people's excessive intake and dependence on medicine. People tend to have excessive trust in medicine. In my case, I used to go to the hospital and get medicine when I was sick. When I was sick and did not take any medicine, I felt uneasy. I feel that taking medicine becomes an "easy way” out, even more, a kind of spiritual sustenance to me. I believe that I will get better after taking the medicine but ignore the harm that it could bring to my body. I decided to create a sculpture, a "hamburger combo" with pills, prescriptions and syringe to express the idea that medicine has become "fast food" for modern people.
