Family Life
Yu Yang
March 7, 2022 – March 8, 2022
Cookhouse Gallery
The raw
materials of Yu Yang's works are familiar, mostly mass-produced things: cups, a
fridge, biscuits, as well as organic matter, such as onion, twig. And yet, his
works — made through a meditative consideration of how these materials are
combined in a room — convey something retreat and restraint.
In the
exhibition Family Life, the artist highlights the contours of his work that
exist between the public and private spheres through the portrayal of a hidden
emotion prevalent in family life, pulling back and forth between the political
and the intimate, the collective and the individual, the great universal
narrative and the everyday gesture in his works and exploring how social issues
are reflected in family life.
Yu Yang is a Chinese artist who
grew up in northern China, where he studied chemistry and chemical engineering
in Yinchuan Ningxia. His experience contributes to the fact that many of his pieces
explore the idea of borders. By subtly intervening and distorting a particular
space, he examines the tendency of societies to systematize and structure
existence and to organize the world in terms of inclusion and exclusion. Using
everyday activities and objects as a form of raw material, Yu Yang’s work
questions the nuances between private and public, inside and outside,
representation and reality.
*All
possible thanks to my friends: Bai Lin, Duanqing Wan, Jingwen Weng, Qihan Yan,
Yang Li, Ziyan Zhang*
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