Yang Mai: HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS

About this exhibition

Hold Me in Your Arms exists as both an exhibition and as a standalone structure: an intricate, site-specific, self-perpetuating system that, despite its industrial references, is imbued with organic movement that is unmistakably bodily in nature. Repurposed garments, colorful paint, and PVC pipes are deconstructed and distorted to create striking new forms that clamber across the gallery floor, commanding attention beyond the ordinary. Mai’s compositions reveal the inner intricacies of unseen systems that govern our lives; by disrupting space and form, he disseminates the sociopolitical nuances of belonging—how, for example, might matters of individuality be shaped by restrictive conditions? Inversely, are systems also molded by those they aim to regulate, classify, and standardize? This mutual malleability is explored in the push-pull architecture of Hold Me in Your Arms, which, though unquestionably inoculated with the artist’s mastery of balance, deftly embodies the pervasive tension that defines the world around us.

via The Visualist