JAZOO Yang: Our legacies

Our legacies

The Bricks
collected materials from streets, resin, bricks, lights _ dimensions variable, 2021

Immanence / Bricks

The resin collage, in forms of painting and brick-shaped sculpture gather the found objects on the street or at (semi-)abandoned sites on the same plane. When we look closer, they are but ordinary objects like parts of household appliances, broken tiles, truncated plastic tube and the like. They are in fact those that had once formed part of a whole and now had fallen out with the whole. They chanced upon the artist as abject.

With the spread of urban abjects on the same plane, Yang´ works in a way prompt us to consider : what is (not). This reflection on boundary is not as “highbrow” as many had wished, so to excuse themselves from coming close to think about it; rather it has its physical dimension anchored in our mundane life. Examples abound: life cycle of household appliances being cut short as new models are churned out on the market ever faster – thus the remains of washing machine; the apartment lease being terminated because the new landlord made plans to refurbish the whole building – hence the wallpapered pebbles; not to mention, relationships turned sour before the end of eternity – the collateral damage thence – scattered mattress springs; so on and so forth. As the artist flaneurs in the city, she is given a glimpse of, and more often the fragments of the parallel processes taking and taken place in the space around her. Pacing with the urban evolution, Yang engages her work to explore the potential of tipping point between boundaries to become meeting point of the many other-eds.

'The Bricks', Installation view @ Soma Art Space 700 Berlin 2021
photo by Marc Doradzillo

Our legacies no.1

Collected variety materials from streets in Berlin(Germany), Leipzig(Germany), Besancon(France), Paris(France), London(UK), Morecambe(UK), Stavanger(Norway), Castlemaine(Australia), Melbourne(Australia), Resin, Found objects from redevelopment area in Seoul

3000H x 1150W x 1070D cm _2019