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2012-11-07
Xiao Yu explores the changes in structure of this rapidly changing society. 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 question mark over continued movement. -- Leng Lin