Screening + Talk: Yujie Zhou, 'SAVE AS'

Artist-in-residence Yujie Zhou invites the public to a screening of An Unfinished Film by Chinese director Lou Ye at the IFI. Following the film, Yujie Zhou will be in conversation with studio artist Léann Herlihy at TBG+S.

The film has been banned in China—denied theatrical release, with all information systematically erased from Chinese social media. As an artist living in diaspora, who can only access censored information outside their home country, Yujie reflects on the shared viewing experience in a cinema banned in its filmed country as an act of collective witnessing.

The film resonates deeply with Yujie's practice, which utilizes glitches in the image-making process to disrupt and preserve censored texts and archival images, transforming them into new forms of evidence that cannot exist in their original state. After the screening of An Unfinished Film, Yujie invites attendees to TBG+S to discuss the shared themes in the film and their practice.

Access to TBG+S: Enter through Gallery.

There is an additional ticket option for the talk only which are not valid for the screening at the IFI. For these ticket holders, please meet at TBG+S at 5:30pm.

Screening + Talk ticket holders will be required to confirm your attendance by email in advance.

Yujie Zhou and Léann Herlihy met in 2024 at HIAP–Helsinki International Artist Programme during the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange.

Yujie Zhou is the recipient of the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, 2025, and is a Chinese visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. They navigate performativity and a decoded notion of language through photography, textiles, video, and publishing. Based on the juxtaposition between their nationalist upbringing and their current life in Finland, their practice interrogates dominant historical narratives and power structures while reframing collective individuality.

Léann Herlihy was the recipient of the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, 2024, and is a lecturer in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. They are the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award (2022), Visual Arts Bursary (2021, 2023, 2024) & Project Award (2024). Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre (2022); Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival (2022).

TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange is in partnership with HIAP–Helsinki International Artist Programme, supported by Finnish Institute UK + Ireland.

The film screening in the IFI as part of the East Asia Film Festival 2025 (20-23 March).