配合近期盛大開幕的台北雙年展，安卓藝術目前亦在畫廊的One Piece Room中展出兩件于吉的創作：《石肉一》、《石肉二》。這兩件藝術家創作於2012與2013年的「石肉」，可謂于吉此系列創作的起點，曾於2013年在安卓藝術的個展「切膚」中首度發表。

于吉曾寫道：「若那殘缺源於肉，肉會自尋出路，殘缺便有了生命。」她以水泥與粗獷鐵件塑造殘缺軀體，在束縛與支撐之間顯露重量與韌性，牽動對生存成敗與生命延續的想像。《石肉一》《石肉二》可見截斷處經時間磨練後的癒合，讓身體自含滄桑歷史而更顯厚度；水泥肌理與骨架的訊息引導觀者重組感知，也使她長年觀察之亞洲古代與佛教造像的身體美學悄然滲入：對勞作人生的悲憫與對「生即如此」的體認，使作品超越醜美與苦樂之分。選擇在近數十年快速發展中無所不在的水泥作為材料，鑄出無頭無面的身體，彷彿將被時代吞沒，卻以內斂而堅定的能量與存在的懸念靜默現身。

Coinciding with Yu Ji’s new presentation of her Flesh in Stone series at the Taipei Biennial, Mind Set Art Center’s One-piece Room is showing Flesh in Stone 1 and Flesh in Stone 2. First presented at the gallery in her 2013 solo exhibition Cut to the Flesh, these works mark the beginning of the series.

Yu has written, “If brokenness arises from flesh, the flesh will find its own way, and the brokenness then comes alive.” Working with concrete and rough iron, she forms partial bodies that, between constraint and support, make weight and resilience visible and open reflections on survival, failure, and the continuation of life. In Flesh in Stone 1 and Flesh in Stone 2, the severed edges appear healed by time, so the body carries its own weathered history with greater depth. The textures of concrete and the cues of an inner armature guide viewers to reassemble perception, while the corporeal aesthetics of Asian antiquity and Buddhist statuary, long observed by the artist, quietly infuse the work. A compassion for laboring lives and an acceptance of life as it is allow the sculptures to move beyond the binaries of beauty and ugliness, suffering and joy. By using concrete, the ubiquitous material of recent decades of rapid development, she casts headless, faceless bodies that seem on the verge of being swallowed by their era, yet they appear with contained and steadfast energy and with a quiet suspense of existence.

關於藝術家

于吉，2011 年畢業於上海大學美術學院雕塑系，獲碩士學位；2008 年於上海共同創辦「上午藝術空間」，為跨領域藝術實踐者提供排演與交流的平台。她以雕塑為核心並延展至裝置與影像，長於在身體、材料與場域之間建立關聯與張力；她一貫勤奮與持續不懈的自我實踐，以及將生活體驗轉化為創作的方式，加深了作品內化的深意與廣度，如同人生一般令人雋永。近年個展包括：「藏我於你腹中」（佩奇當代藝術中心，義大利普拉托，2024）、「我們是復形疊影中的一個，我是整體中部分的集合」（上海紐約大學當代藝術中心，上海，2023）、「一客，一主，一幽靈」（橘郡藝術博物館，科斯塔梅薩，2023）、「貝殼小姐，Δ 和兩個 O」（CCA 柏林當代藝術中心，柏林，2023）、「無視陰影」（賽迪 HQ 畫廊，倫敦，2022）、「荒棄的泥土」（奇森黑爾藝術空間，倫敦，2021）、「于吉：即興判斷 II」（西岸美術館，上海，2021）與「Forager」（馬凌畫廊於銅仁路聯華公寓，上海，2020）。她曾入圍 2023 年「希克獎」，近期公共委託可見於魯汶大學與紐約高線公園。

About Artist

Yu Ji received an MFA in Sculpture from the College of Fine Arts at Shanghai University in 2011. In 2008 she co founded AM Art Space in Shanghai, a platform for rehearsal and exchange across disciplines. Centering on sculpture and extending into installation and moving image, her practice builds relations and tension among body, material, and site. Her sustained diligence and her translation of lived experience into form deepen the inward resonance and breadth of the work, lending it lasting poignancy. Recent solo exhibitions include Hide Me in Your Belly (Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2024), We Are One Among Replications, I Am a Sum of Parts Within the Whole (Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, 2023), One Guest, One Host, One Ghost (Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, 2023), Miss Shell, Δ and Two O’s (CCA Berlin, Berlin, 2023), Ignoring the Shadows (Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2022), Abandoned Ground (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2021), Yu Ji: Improvisation Judgment II (West Bund Museum, Shanghai, 2021), and Forager (Edouard Malingue Gallery at Lianhua Apartments, Tongren Road, Shanghai, 2020). She was shortlisted for the Sigg Prize in 2023, and recent public commissions can be seen at KU Leuven and on the High Line in New York.

One-piece Room｜于吉 YU Ji