Lei Yan

There are multiple notable individuals named Lei Yan. The most prominent in literary/artistic contexts is Lei Yan (雷燕), whose artistic practice was shaped by a decades-long career in the Chinese military. Lei Yan began a period of artistic transition through participation in a 2002 restaging of the Communist Red Army's 1934 Long March as a multi-sited international art project, evolving into work with soft sculpture objects in cloth and paper.