01. Untitled xi (wall tableau)
Unfolding from ongoing research into the materiality and political performativity of hyperfeminine AI sex robots, the wall tableau is a meditation on figuration and abstraction. The installation draws formal elements from art historical motifs (Matejko's Battle of Grunwald, Goya's Disasters of War, and Wyspański’s pastel studies of hand gestures, alongside many others). It transposes scenes of historical chaos and rupture into a bare, spectral language of material tension and corporeal choreography. It reenacts grand violence not through spectacle, but through the fractured intimacy of the figure(s). What remains are traces - subtle and resilient. This work does not re-stage the past, but points to its aftereffects in its materiality and plastic performativity.
Unfolding from ongoing research into the materiality and political performativity of hyperfeminine AI sex robots, the wall tableau is a meditation on figuration and abstraction. The installation draws formal elements from art historical motifs (Matejko's Battle of Grunwald, Goya's Disasters of War, and Wyspański’s pastel studies of hand gestures, alongside many others). It transposes scenes of historical chaos and rupture into a bare, spectral language of material tension and corporeal choreography. It reenacts grand violence not through spectacle, but through the fractured intimacy of the figure(s). What remains are traces - subtle and resilient. This work does not re-stage the past, but points to its aftereffects in its materiality and plastic performativity.
2025
Silicone, pigment, stainless steel
85.5 x 109 x 32 in. / 217 x 277 x 81cm
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
Silicone, pigment, stainless steel
85.5 x 109 x 32 in. / 217 x 277 x 81cm
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
02. Untitled xii
2025
Silicone, pigment, electric motor, industrial and modular components, steel
70.5 x 28 x 10.25 in. / 179 x 71 x 26cm
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
Silicone, pigment, electric motor, industrial and modular components, steel
70.5 x 28 x 10.25 in. / 179 x 71 x 26cm
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
03. Untitled xiv
2022/25
Reappropriated handcarved marble slab
37.75 x 24 x 13 in. / 96 x 61 x 33cm
Images: Yubo Dong
Reappropriated handcarved marble slab
37.75 x 24 x 13 in. / 96 x 61 x 33cm
Images: Yubo Dong
04. Untitled x
2025
Silicone, pigment, mannequin stand
44.25 x 16 x 12.25 in. / 112 x 40.5 x 31cm
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery
Silicone, pigment, mannequin stand
44.25 x 16 x 12.25 in. / 112 x 40.5 x 31cm
Images: Yubo Dong and Phase gallery