Frieze London 2024: GHOST
Yeni Mao and Yuri Yuan
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Press Release
Make Room Los Angeles is excited to participate in the 2024 Frieze London Curated Section “Smoke,” featuring a presentation of new works by artists Yeni Mao and Yuri Yuan. Curated by Pablo José Ramirez, "Smoke" brings together two artists who explore the intangible and often haunting aspects of form and material. “Smoke" explores the transformational potentials of raw materials and the ephemeral nature of landscapes. Through distinct practices, both Yeni and Yuri Yuan bring their unique perspectives to the exhibition, creating a dialogue between sculpture and painting that resonates with themes of solitude, grief, and the subtext of destruction.
Images courtesy of the artists and Make Room, Los Angeles.
About the Artists
Yeni MaoYeni Mao's (b. 1971, Canada) sculptures possess a captivating narrative undertone, often drawing from the artist's transnational background. Themes of displacement, migration, fragmented and sexualized bodies, and their connection to the …
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Yuri YuanYuri Yuan (b. 1996) was born in Harbin, China and raised in Singapore. She has received a BFA from Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Columbia University. The Critic John Yau has described Yuan’s paintings as “understated, but… …
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