Muyan Gao
Muyan Gao is an artist who creates paper pulp works that explore the relationship between sculpture and functionality. With a BA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, Muyan has utilized forms and recycled paper to make sculptures that can be used. She currently lives in Beijing and London, where she owns and operates her studio.
This group of work represents a continued exploration of paper mâché as an eco-friendly material. Each sculpture is crafted from recycled paper pulp, meticulously shaped, cut, painted, and polished by hand, preserving the original handmade traces.Â
The work focuses on the interrelationships between plants, land, life, and the body, exploring how the act of creation can be seen as a means of existence. Can these rational, restrained, swaying, cute, and innocent descriptive languages be embodied in various forms and containers? Containers are often metaphorically likened to symbols of the body, with paper mâché perceived as skin. The aim is to turn each sculpture into an inception of context, akin to a plant that continuously grows and spreads. Each body is wrapped in skin, and every narrative seems to be filled with imagination, providing them with a "nest."
Each object originates from this vision: fluctuating between sculpture and functionality, and expressing slowly between form, color, and texture.
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