Yang Chi-Chuan: Plastonki at Edouard Malingue

Whimsically narrated site-specific installation with climbing holds on the walls and a bunch of natural and plastic trash cast ashore the sandy beach. What will evolve in this type of polluted environment and what kind of life will climb out of it? What’s the difference between natural adaptation and the anthropogenically caused changes?
But don’t think about this exhibition as a just another environmentally concerned one and more importantly don’t trust your eyes: all of the objects you see are ceramics. Yes, those cigarette butts too. And sticks, bottles and eroded containers. So the impression and feelings you get looking at the installation is just due to the common narrative, but aren’t we all just creating narratives and sharing them to others, in order to create more broad common narratives? Are we so obsessed with our own story, experience, and conciseness that it makes us susceptive to these stories we keep repeating? Very multilayered and intriguing exhibition.
(By the way, the oldest ceramic objects that we know are around 30,000 years old. Plastic, with its lifetime of approximately 400 years, is a very short lived material, so maybe some artists should consider making ceramic replicas of their famous plastic works. Just saying.)

Exhibition period: 18 September – 30 October
Gallery address: 12/F, Blue Box Factory Building, Aberdeen