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STATEMENT OF WORK
Nuo Yang is a Chinese artist based in London, currently pursuing an MA at Chelsea College of Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Cookhouse Gallery (London), AVA (Ljubljana), and The Half Space (Changsha).
Working primarily with metal, silicone, and found antiques, Yang’s practice explores the afterlives of objects and how everyday commodities might evolve into future cultural heritage. By assembling fragments of contemporary manufacturing—materials designed to circulate endlessly and disappear just as quickly—she conducts an archaeology of the present. Through this process, she compels plastics and concrete to behave in ways they were never intended to.
Yang sees the translucency of material not only as a visual surface but as a lens through which the present can be both observed and preserved. The fluidity of silicone and resin metaphorically echoes the body’s rhythms of absorption and expulsion—mirroring how we consume and dispose. Drawing from an archaeological perspective, she asks: as objects pass through our daily lives, how do we confront the emotional residue they leave behind and trace the material histories they carry—of labor, migration, and exchange?