Yang Xinguang, Hello

Yang Xinguang’s works primarily use wood, stone, metal, and other materials to emphasize the chance connections between human and material forms, and to give visual form to social anxieties. In Hello, Yang Xinguang anthropomorphizes two wooden rods which, in retaining traces of having undergone manual, labor-intensive processes and symbolizing impoverishment, hint at some of the unfair relations behind the process of globalization.

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