Yu Ji: Wasted Mud

Wasted Mud, is the first UK solo exhibition by Shanghai-based artist Yu Ji. Comprising sculpture, video, print and performance, Yu Ji's work often responds to a specific context or location to examine the interplay between the human body and its surrounding space. Motivated by an acute sensitivity to materials, Yu Ji's work explores a tension between physical matter and energy. Recurring materials used in her work, such as cement, wood, metal, plastic and organic matter all have their distinctive characteristics, tactility and 'temperatures'. In her installations, these materials oppose, rub and strike against one another; proposing by their proximity how they might merge, combine or absorb one into the other. Wasted Mud develops Yu Ji's ongoing enquiry into a symbiotic relationship between her body and specific terrains and contexts in which she works.