Yu Honglei

Take a Walk is a two-channel digital video piece that Yu Honglei created as a path for viewing. He re-interprets more than one hundred works of art, movies, and music with a smaller amount of daily objects (the majority of art works and figures in these art works can be reassembled into a daily life for that is where they initially come) and places them into five situations. Or one can say that this process is purely curatorial, through making connections between different works in the space and planting countless clues, as if it were all real.

Yu Honglei work is primarily engaged with moving images and sculptures. Yu Honglei’s moving image and sculptural practice takes inspiration from a unique visual vernacular of an online image database and visual cultures of Chinese cities. These sources are used by the artist and applied with the artist’s sculptural touch. What he is interested in is the plasticity of thought forms and the sensible entities it corresponds to. Such plasticity allows Yu to execute the cognitive leap between the visual currencies as employed by his works and their titles, allowing for a hermeneutic and polysemic output, which informs his highly personal artistic discourse.