* 1983 in Chongqing, CN, lives and works in Beijing
Drawn from the endless global supply of products and images that are available with a few clicks over the internet, GUAN Xiao’s sculptural work melds commodity fragments—stacked car tires, fake flowers—into associative, totem-like assemblages. GUAN presents four material collages that combine readymade objects with more traditional sculptural material such as painted bronze or brass. Bought things dragged-and-dropped from the flatness of merchandising websites into real space meet natural formations. The results look like compositions alluding to alien life forms while suggesting the animism of everyday objects—human waste management turned into an impossibly fertile ground for a post-natural future.
List of works
Installation view from left to right: Din Din Jaarhh, 2015; Yngve Holen Window seat 42–43 F, 2016, and Window seat 30–40 F, 2016; courtesy Yngve Holen; Galerie Neu, Berlin; Five Walks Through the Dusk, 2015; courtesy Antenna Space, Shanghai; Sunrise, 2015; courtesy GUAN Xiao; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; photo: Timo Ohler
Din Din Jaarhh, 2016
Brass, stainless steel wheel, colored flax rope; Collection Oehmen
Five Walks Through the Dusk, 2015
Brass, car wheels, selfie stick, tassel
Courtesy Antenna Space, Shanghai
Moving Mountains, 2014
Colored bronze, colored hats, wooden base
Private collection
Sunrise, 2015
Car tires, artificial plants, exhaust pipes, lightbox
Courtesy GUAN Xiao; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
