Yao Qingmei is an artist based between Paris and Wenzhou who works across video, performance, and installation. Her practice stages situations that are both choreographed and susceptible to breakdown, where bodies confront systems of rules and constraint. Drawing on cinematic language, physical gesture, and scenographic frameworks, she explores the tension between control and instability; moments in which vulnerability emerges as the body slips beyond imposed structures. Through this approach, she transforms everyday actions into performative frameworks that expose and unsettle power dynamics and collective forms.

Yao Qingmei has exhibited work at Centre Pompidou, Paris; West Bund Museum, Shanghai; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, among others.