01. Untitled xi (wall tableau)
A meditation on figuration and abstraction, the installation draws formal elements from Matejko's Battle of Grunwald, Goya's Disasters of War, and Wyspański’s pastel studies of hand gestures. It transposes scenes of historical rupture into a minimalist, almost spectral language of material tension and corporeal choreography. It reenacts grand violence not through spectacle, but through intimacy of the figure. What remains are traces - delicate and ambiguous. This work does not re-stage the past, but mourns its aftereffects in its materiality.
A meditation on figuration and abstraction, the installation draws formal elements from Matejko's Battle of Grunwald, Goya's Disasters of War, and Wyspański’s pastel studies of hand gestures. It transposes scenes of historical rupture into a minimalist, almost spectral language of material tension and corporeal choreography. It reenacts grand violence not through spectacle, but through intimacy of the figure. What remains are traces - delicate and ambiguous. This work does not re-stage the past, but mourns its aftereffects in its materiality.
2025
Silicone, pigment, stainless steel
85.5 x 109 x 32 inches
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
Silicone, pigment, stainless steel
85.5 x 109 x 32 inches
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
02. Melancholy of the self (no. 1 - )
An ongoing project that looks at the entanglement of human and artificial forms, and gestures embedded in loss and melancholy. The materials of steel and silicone, play off schemas of artificial bodies that engage with processes of replication, simulation, substitution, and mimesis. Together they expose anxieties inherent in the contemporary apparatus—a space where the legacies of industrialization, concepts of the human body, and fragmented intimacies are compressed into singular objects - a kind of flattening that takes place in the translation between the human and the machine.
An ongoing project that looks at the entanglement of human and artificial forms, and gestures embedded in loss and melancholy. The materials of steel and silicone, play off schemas of artificial bodies that engage with processes of replication, simulation, substitution, and mimesis. Together they expose anxieties inherent in the contemporary apparatus—a space where the legacies of industrialization, concepts of the human body, and fragmented intimacies are compressed into singular objects - a kind of flattening that takes place in the translation between the human and the machine.
2022 - present
Silicone, pigment, steel, copper.
Variable size
Silicone, pigment, steel, copper.
Variable size
03. Complex systems
A result of a multi-year research into the materiality of a hyperfeminine companion robot this body of work traces methodical feminist intervention into the coded data sets populated with a ‘master-slave’ rhetoric to probe at algorithmic notions of emancipation, control, and autonomy. By bridging various systems of classification from social, cultural, and technological domains, the exhibition confronts the collapsing boundaries of intimacy and agency within human-machine relations and algorithmic landscapes.
A result of a multi-year research into the materiality of a hyperfeminine companion robot this body of work traces methodical feminist intervention into the coded data sets populated with a ‘master-slave’ rhetoric to probe at algorithmic notions of emancipation, control, and autonomy. By bridging various systems of classification from social, cultural, and technological domains, the exhibition confronts the collapsing boundaries of intimacy and agency within human-machine relations and algorithmic landscapes.
2022
Two single channel videos with audio, CRT monitor, vinyl, studio stands, chromalux prints on aluminum, custom marble and limestone pedestals, custom type font silicone, steel.
Prints: 54in x 36in x 12in each, 6 in total
Wall text: Approx. 4ft x 18ft
Vinyl grid: Approx. 5ft. x 11ft. x12.5ft.
Images: Yubo Dong/ofstudio
University Art Gallery, University of Irvine
Two single channel videos with audio, CRT monitor, vinyl, studio stands, chromalux prints on aluminum, custom marble and limestone pedestals, custom type font silicone, steel.
Prints: 54in x 36in x 12in each, 6 in total
Wall text: Approx. 4ft x 18ft
Vinyl grid: Approx. 5ft. x 11ft. x12.5ft.
Images: Yubo Dong/ofstudio
University Art Gallery, University of Irvine
04. I don’t care about the avant garde, all I care about is you
The video features a conversation between the artist and a hyperfeminine companion robot, whose development was shaped by the integration of feminist theory into its algorithm. The dialogue explores issues of non-human identity, agency and free will, ultimately prompting questions about AI subjectivity.
The video features a conversation between the artist and a hyperfeminine companion robot, whose development was shaped by the integration of feminist theory into its algorithm. The dialogue explores issues of non-human identity, agency and free will, ultimately prompting questions about AI subjectivity.
2022
Video with audio, 7min 56sec, CRT monitor, Vinyl, studio stands
Overall: 5ft. x 11ft. x12.5ft.
Images: Yubo Dong/ofstudio. Hiroshi Clark
Video with audio, 7min 56sec, CRT monitor, Vinyl, studio stands
Overall: 5ft. x 11ft. x12.5ft.
Images: Yubo Dong/ofstudio. Hiroshi Clark