Pervading Yang Chi-Chuan’s works is a delicate, mnemonic quality engaging with our relations between people, places, objects and events. By often employing storytelling in her sculptures or installations with a warm, intimate and gentle touch, Yang embodies subtle access to a wide range of questions in life, around family, politics, urban environment and various cultural fabrics.

The installation includes a narrative audio recording and handcrafted ceramics. The audio begins with a scientific introduction, then followed by an anthropomorphic fable. Alternating between informative and satirical tones, the narration illustrates various living organisms such as fish, seaweed, coral, beaches, stones, their evolutions in the ecological cycle and the causes of natural landscapes. ”Plastonki“, a synonym of the product of modernisation, appears in the story as a bizarre and mysterious existence, with its identity ambiguously shifting between nature, myths and beliefs.

(by appointment only)

Gallery address: Unit B2, 12/F, Blue Box Factory Building, Aberdeen