Yuan Yuan

‘Gorilla exhibit’ comes from a gorilla’s pavilion from a zoo in Berlin, which has a space that mimics the ecosystem of a forest. Starting from the compositional structure of this painting, the artist has framed what he would call ‘ruins-alike’, along with an abundance of figurative details. Tens of thousands of minuscule mosaic tiles, reflecting just as many tones of blue; shade nets intertwined with one another, resting upon dead branches, forming multi-layered matrixes – being obsessed with and almost paranoid about polishing such details, Yuan Yuan depicts most patiently and rationally an uncanny realm, merged in which are displaced scenes, fantasies based upon reality, personal experiences, and the singular aesthetics of immanence of the artist.