Yuening Du

London-based multidisciplinary designer working across spatial experience, scenography, moving image, installation and performance

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What the Body Keeps
Not a Translation
Emotional Surveillance
The Shaped Body
How to hold the body
Between Cracks, Figures Emerge
Seen, Vaguely Perceived
One cannot see the wood for the trees
Suspended Interfaces
Draw on my back challenge
Celebration While Gazing Northwest Toward

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Life Studies
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Emotional Surveillance
Production year: 2026
Mediums: moving image, sound, installation

This project explores how AI and emotion recognition technologies turn human emotions into data that can be read, evaluated, and managed. Through installation and video projection, the work simulates an environment of continuous observation, allowing audiences to directly feel the pressure of being monitored and judged. The project invites reflection on technological power, the datafication of emotion, and emotional privacy, asking: when machines begin to read our emotions, do we still possess emotional autonomy?

Installation view, Emotional Surveillance, 2026

Software interface screenshot, Emotional Surveillance, 2026

Installation view, Emotional Surveillance, 2026

Exhibition documentation video, Emotional Surveillance, 2026