Wang Yuyang, The Narrative of a Stack of Paper

Wang Yuyang incorporates different technological media into his ontological speculations. "The Narrative of a Stack of Paper" includes 901 sheets of handmade paper which together recount the complete process of their own fabrication, including tree-felling, debarking, soaking, slurrying, boiling, bleaching, starching, extracting, pressing, and drying. In this way the traditional and quotidian medium of paper becomes the object of the narrative as well as the narrative itself.

This artwork was featured in the UCCA exhibition "ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, ” 2013