Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

source: mediartchinaorg

As the most universal representative of modern civilization, simple machines are the advocators of the entire discipline system, the extension and suppression of human beings. While taking on different looks, they are all produced to meet specific needs, and have unknown potential to be discovered. It seems they never feel tired: rolling, sounding, shimmering, keeping eating up numerous electric and human power to maintain their functions. They force people to get used to the depressed desire, so that they become unconscious of living in the cruelty, and exhaust themselves day after day.

Artist Bio:
Born in Fujian Province in 1982, Yang Jian graduated with an MA from School of Fine Arts, Xiamen University in 2007. He was elected into the International Artist in Residence program of The Dutch Royal Academy of Fine Arts during 2009 to 2010, and was offered the sponsorship from Dutch Stichting Niemeijer Foundation. His works recently have been shown in “ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2013); Are We More Stupid than Before? (solo), WHITE SPACE BEIJING, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing and Nanjing.
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source: wherewhereproject

Yang Jian has worked primarily in video and installation. He received a BA (2004) and MA (2007) from the Art College of Xiamen University and was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie Vanbeeldende Kunsten in Netherlands from 2009 to 2010, supported with funding from Stichting Niemeijer Fonds (NL). He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, Netherlands, USA and China, presenting most recently his solo project Critique as a Foreground Music at the Organhaus Art Space in Chongqing in 2011. He currently lives and works in Beijing and Nanjing, China.