EDGE WATER, 2016. Installation view.Spine model, steel bars, wood, coconut shells, embroidered shoes, PVC pipes, etc.
Sculpture Draft,
Sculpture Draft.The artist perceives themselves as embodying the role of a hunter-gatherer, engaging with objects not as consumable commodities but as fundamental and tangible entities. For the artist, the act of gathering constitutes a vital mode of existence—an approach that fosters intimacy and adaptability. Having grown up in a socialist country shaped by an intense ideological pursuit of stability through control, the artist’s fluid identity and methodologies have provided a means of resisting rigidity and dogma. By attuning themselves to the intrinsic energy of objects, the artist transforms these materials into reflective surfaces, revealing insights into their own individuality and vitality.
This work was commition by the exhibition “You Won’t be Young Forever” which is outcome of field research, studio visits and ongoing discussion of the exhibition curator Biljana Ciric looking at the youngest generation of artists and their practice in China. While this exhibition doesn’t want to limit the artistic presentation to artists born after certain year, rather proposes to look loosely at generation born from mid 80’s to early 90’s and their works. This ongoing curatorial project tempts to support and expose youngest generation of artists at the very early stage of the practice and support their experimentation.
Reason for doing the exhibition at this specific moment reflects the current art system in China where young artists start their practice with gallery exhibitions and time and space for experimentation is extremely limited by the system. At the same time less and less artists organized exhibitions could be seen around the country that was strongest force for artists presenting their most radical experiments.
This work was commition by the exhibition “You Won’t be Young Forever” which is outcome of field research, studio visits and ongoing discussion of the exhibition curator Biljana Ciric looking at the youngest generation of artists and their practice in China. While this exhibition doesn’t want to limit the artistic presentation to artists born after certain year, rather proposes to look loosely at generation born from mid 80’s to early 90’s and their works. This ongoing curatorial project tempts to support and expose youngest generation of artists at the very early stage of the practice and support their experimentation.
Reason for doing the exhibition at this specific moment reflects the current art system in China where young artists start their practice with gallery exhibitions and time and space for experimentation is extremely limited by the system. At the same time less and less artists organized exhibitions could be seen around the country that was strongest force for artists presenting their most radical experiments.