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P·P·O·W is pleased to present Origin of the Tiger, interdisciplinary artist Yu Ji’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Employing basic materials such as wood, concrete, metal, and plaster along with organic matter and everyday objects, Yu’s sculptures and installations investigate the potency of the fragment, atavistic memory, and the concept of place, both bodily and topographically. The importance of play and collaboration are at the heart of Yu Ji’s practice, often telling stories of human vulnerability and resiliency. In a new series of sculptures, installation, collage, sound, and video, Yu presents the results of a three-year itinerant practice spent between Shanghai, Cambodia, and New York City. Encompassing a journey that began during a self-organized six-month residency and children’s workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, culminating in her final immigration to New York City’s Chinatown, Origin of the Tiger is an assemblage of fragments of what could be carried, memories of…
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P·P·O·W is pleased to present Origin of the Tiger, interdisciplinary artist Yu Ji’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Employing basic materials such as wood, concrete, metal, and plaster along with organic matter and everyday objects, Yu’s sculptures and installations investigate the potency of the fragment, atavistic memory, and the concept of place, both bodily and topographically. The importance of play and collaboration are at the heart of Yu Ji’s practice, often telling stories of human vulnerability and resiliency. In a new series of sculptures, installation, collage, sound, and video, Yu presents the results of a three-year itinerant practice spent between Shanghai, Cambodia, and New York City. Encompassing a journey that began during a self-organized six-month residency and children’s workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, culminating in her final immigration to New York City’s Chinatown, Origin of the Tiger is an assemblage of fragments of what could be carried, memories of…



































































































































