Yusi Zang

Feeding 2025

cement fondu, steel, sand, plastic, feeding trough

Zang’s sculptural installation Feeding consists of a pair of antlers submerged in a feeding trough filled with sludge. The antlered subject, which could be a prehistoric or contemporary creature, appears to sink impossibly through the food source needed for its survival. The artwork explores themes of parasitism and dependency within the larger world, the survival instinct of organisms seeking food sources, and the existential questions posed by these instincts. Installed near the HAH Lorne Beach Cafe, a hub of both human and animal activity, the sculpture also comments on the place of certain species of animal and groups of people within a given context and their acceptance or integration within environmental and social ecosystems.

Yusi Zang is a diasporic Chinese artist born in Beijing and based in Melbourne. Connecting the poetics of her inner thoughts with the realism of commonplace objects, Zang’s work plays with the uncanny to upset our sense of the familiar. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations transcend the banalities of existence through humorous invention, reconciling concepts of boredom and the sublime.

Zang completed a Master of Teaching (secondary education) at Melbourne University (2022), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at Monash University (2019). Selected solo exhibitions include Yusi Zang: Paintings and Sculptures, Animal House Fine Arts, Melbourne (2023); Sometimes We Seek Truth in the Traces of Others, TCB, Melbourne (2022); Traces and Stains, Meanwhile Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2021); Altered Routine, Yusi Zang and Andre Franco, Blindside, Melbourne (2019); Flattening, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2019); Seeing is Forgetting, BUS Projects, Melbourne (2018); and The Back of a Canvas, Intermission Gallery, MADA, Melbourne (2017). Group exhibitions include Menagerie, Asbestos, Melbourne (2023); Then Sharply Turns, Conners Conners Gallery, Melbourne (2023); Family and Friends, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne (2019); and Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne (2019).

Yusi Zang is represented by Animal House Fine Arts.

Images: Feeding 2025 (top); Yusi Zang (bottom). Courtesy the artist.

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