ow are our bodies impacted by sudden changes in the built environment around us? This question animates Yu Ji’s sculptural and installation-based practice, which draws equally on performance art as it does her surroundings where she scavenges (2019–21), a suspended, handmade net lined with a black tarpaulin, which contained twisted metal, drywall, concrete shards, and other wreckage recycled from local construction sites. A pump circulated plant-infused water through ten tubes that flowed the liquid onto the hammock and other objects, including a plaster mold for the torsos of two concrete figures, such that the water eventually leaked through floor of the space and back into the earth.
