2025
A visual study built through a digitally constructed environment. The scene was created in Blender to control form, lighting, and surface interaction.
2025
A visual experiment exploring digital texture and fragmentation. The image emphasizes surface, light, and tonal contrast, allowing the form to dissolve into its surrounding space.
2025
Designer: Tina.yu
In collaboration with a TMU Fashion student, this series reinterprets a 2025 fashion collection through a carefully constructed visual environment. The images emphasize sculptural silhouettes, tonal contrast, and restrained gestures.
By balancing softness and structure, the project translates the collection into a cohesive visual atmosphere beyond conventional lookbook documentation.
2025
A staged photographic and installation project examining the visual language of surveillance. The work incorporates fisheye distortion, elevated viewpoints, and mediated screens to simulate voyeuristic observation.
Through direct gazes and controlled gestures, the subjects disrupt the passive role typically associated with being watched. The installation positions viewers within the act of looking, creating a layered exchange between watcher and subject.
2025
This work explores the tension between struggle and support, balancing stability and collapse. Using paper, fishing line, and plaster cloth, I construct fragmented human forms that appear suspended or disintegrating.
Light and shadow emphasize their fragility and instability. The incomplete bodies suggest vulnerability, yet also a quiet persistence that keeps them standing.
Installation – Wood, Nails, Rope
2023
This installation explores the persistence of pain and the physical memory it leaves behind. Nails pierce the wooden surface, symbolizing moments of impact and emotional rupture. Even when removed, the marks remain—small punctures that cannot be undone.
Rope threads through the structure, suggesting the entanglement of unresolved emotion. Constructed as a chair, the work introduces the presence of the body. It becomes an object of support and discomfort simultaneously, inviting reflection on how pain is carried, endured, and remembered.
2024
This installation reflects on time as both movement and confinement. The candle burns slowly, leaving wax to solidify along the surface of glass and wood. What drips, hardens; what burns, remains.
Flame suggests duration, while wax becomes its visible trace. In the second structure, the light is partially enclosed by intersecting bamboo pieces, evoking a sense of being held — or restrained — within a constructed framework.
Time is not only passing; it accumulates, thickens, and sometimes traps us within its residue.
Yiki Shi
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Yiki Shi is a photographer and installation-based artist trained at the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University.
She has collaborated with emerging designers from TMU’s Fashion program, photographing graduate collections and runway presentations. Through these collaborations, she works closely with designers to translate garments into cohesive visual narratives, balancing aesthetic clarity with conceptual direction.
Alongside fashion photography, she continues to develop installation-based projects that inform her sensitivity to light, structure, and material presence.
Toronto Metropolitan University
School of Image Arts
BFA Photography
Exhibitions
Third Year Exhibition
Toronto Metropolitan University
2024
TMU Fashion Graduation Show
Photography Documentation
2025
Collaborative Projects with TMU Fashion Students
2025