The hooded skeleton on a goat, 2021
Ink and watercolor on paper
23 1/4 x 16 3/8 in.
59.1 x 41.6 cm
59.1 x 41.6 cm
$ 20,000.00
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Yun-Fei Ji’s latest body of work expresses the anxieties and uncertainties of the current political and social climate. He captures the chaos and tension of existing in a global moment...
Yun-Fei Ji’s latest body of work expresses the anxieties and uncertainties of the current political and social climate. He captures the chaos and tension of existing in a global moment in which protestors in the United States and Hong Kong were met with authoritarian police response, and government-endorsed xenophobia lead to racist attacks against Asians becoming epidemic in cities like New York and San Fransisco. In several of these works, what at first glance appears to be a fantastical meeting of man and beast is also a statement on present American sociopolitical conditions. The pointed hoods that proliferate throughout these paintings suggest the white hoods and robes of the Klu Klux Klan, a reflection of the strains of racism, nativism, and nationalism that were given a new central platform by the last American President.
Exhibitions
Tales of Soil and Concrete, Pippy Houldswourth, London, UK, July 13 - August 12, 2023A Través, James Cohan, 52 Walker Street, New York, January 14 - February 19, 2022
Yun-Fei Ji: Tall Tales of a Scavenger, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, June 12 - September 5, 2021