The three groups of sculptures presented in this exhibition were created during the residency project at the "Machang" in Jiading, Shanghai. Within the environment of a factory that provides production services for art making, I shared the workspace with skilled workers for both manufacturing and artistic creation.

The spatial transformations and aesthetic logic brought about by embodied labor are what I persistently follow and focus on. Sometimes it's the state of raw material storage and transportation; sometimes it's the complex clutter visible on the ground during work breaks; and sometimes it's the light, dust, smells, smoke, and noise. Liquid silicone is poured into molds, gradually solidifying from a scorching, fluid state into something pink, smooth, and pliable. They are torn, tied, twisted, becoming embedded and connected with external organisms.

When the sunset glow spilled over them, as well as over the plywood, scaffolding, aluminum alloy bars, nylon cloth, and concrete blocks, I caught a glimpse of the phrase "Hook and Eye of Collar" printed on the packaging of commonly used hook-and-loop fasteners. "Hook," "eye," "collar"—I muttered these words repeatedly, gradually amazed by the imagination of bodily senses and dynamics that these three objects evoked. Perhaps an entrance to a landscape opened right there.

The exhibition title, "Hook and Eye of Collar," comes from the English name for the fasteners used on women's undergarment. It is hidden, tiny, yet possesses an intricate structure and an important connecting function, serving as a metaphor for the tension between the body and objects. For this project, I invited the workers at "Machang" to use light-gauge steel and polycarbonate panels to build for me the kind of temporary, quickly assembled structures they use to partition workspaces within the factory. The arrangement of the three sculptural groups within the space also resembles the posture of raw materials being processed in a factory: suspended, spread out, stacked, leaning.

The exhibition is supported by Antenna Space