Yuan Jia -
Wood Objects
Yuan Jia is obsessed
with the use of linden wood to create her works, and for this,
she has purchased large machines and researched deeply into wood-processing
techniques.
She has bestowed everyday objects and animals with joints,
so that they can wake up, jump, and escape human control at any
time, taking on autonomy:
a table with long, thin legs leads a duck on an escape, furniture
jumps down from the walls, drawers are pulled out of a pig's body.
These objects are cute and fascinating like fairytales, but are
also marked by the distrust and skepticism of our absurd reality.