Xiao Yu explores the changes in structure of this rapidly changingsociety. In the trend of rapid bureaucratization and vocationalism, he looks for the relationships formed between individuals and small collectives, bringing in new concepts and meanings to the concept of the modern "person". In the works "Untitled Series", he takes different parts of different faces that belong to workers from small social work units, and pieces together new faces... Individuals and small collectives are in a process where they constantly mould each other, and this molded "realty" becomes the most superficial thing; it is monstrous, savage, transient, indefinable, and it can gush away at any time. "Reality" becomes in turn the one thing that cannot be clutched, and we find that the nature of individuals that rely upon this "reality" is transformed here into a question mark, a questionmark over continued movement. -- Leng Lin

Untitled Series (Actor, Teacher, Nurse, Guard, Company Employee, Renovation Worker)

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Colored Picture or Colored Spray Painting

Size: 135 x 110 cm, 140 x 110 cm, 142 x 110 cm, 133 x 110 cm

Year: 2005

Exhibition: Mayfly, Beijing Commune, Beijing, June 25–August 10, 2005.