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Round
Cement; edition 2/4
7 ½ x 3 ⅛ x 2 ¾ inches
Courtesy of Yu Ji
Estimated Retail Value: $12,000
Starting Bid: $6,000
Yu Ji’s acclaimed practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, video and drawing, often focusing on fragments to consider ancestral memory and the charged physical, cultural, and historical nature of a place. A regular world traveler who conducts field research across the globe, Yu Ji seeks stories and creates expressions of human vulnerability and resiliency, suggesting the beauty of instability and wholeness within fracture. Flesh in Stone - Tiny Figure #4 is a perfect example, a stone torso sculpture appears to have weathered over time, suggesting various histories of bodies in places that could be Pompeii to Greece to China.
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Yu Ji (b. 1985, Shanghai; lives and works in Shanghai) obtained her MFA at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University. In 2008, she co-founded “am art space,” an artist-led initiative promoting experimentation and exchanges between artists, curators and the public.In 2019, her work was included in the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale and in 2023, she unveiled a public sculpture commissioned by the High Line in New York. She also has had recent solo exhibitions at Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy; Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK; Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, China; and Orange County Museum of Art, among others. Her work is in the collections of De Ying Foundation (Shanghai); Longlati Foundation, (Shanghai); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark); and M+ (Hong Kong). Her work is currently on view as part of In Interludes and Transitions, the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Saudi Arabia.
