Victoria Yuanli Yuan (b. 1992) is a research-led contemporary visual artist whose practice is centred on painting. Her work explores the permeable relationship between the body, surface and environment, asking how the body, as a fluid material presence, is shaped through contact and transformation. Rather than treating the body as a complete and self-contained image, Yuan approaches it as an open and unstable interface. Through metallic grounds, reflective surfaces, translucent layers, blurred boundaries and partially visible forms, she examines how subjectivity emerges through exposure and material change.

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Informed by posthuman ecofeminism, hydrofeminist thought and material feminism, Yuan understands the body as porous, materials as active agents and the environment as a transformative force. Her paintings occupy a space between appearance and disappearance, where bodily traces merge with abstraction and vulnerability coexists with visual seduction. By moving between metallic and wet surfaces, coldness and corporeality, gloss and damage, concealment and leakage, her work resists a fixed reading of the body. Painting becomes a site through which ecological interconnectedness, relational subjectivity and shared vulnerability can be considered, revealing the obscured connections between body and environment, self and other, surface and interior.