Detail of Stolen Time 20210329, 2021, collected street materials, silicon resin, 200 x 120 x 3 cm, courtesy Kang Contemporary

Jazoo Yang

Jazoo Yang has made a practice of discovering the extraordinary in the mundane. She explores construction zones, parks, and abandoned buildings in search of materials for her works. The artist then eternalizes them in resin molds. Her art pieces are memories of buildings and sometimes entire neighborhoods that no longer exist, but used to be vivid clusters of social life. They visualize the constant radical and sometimes brutal change life in the city entails. She assembles this rubble, which is usually seen as a source of irritation and chaos into abstract compositions of colors and shapes. In a post-industrial- age that gentrifies developing cityscapes before they can gasp for air, she turns to a more appropriate medium than paint on canvases.