Guan Xiao
Teenager

Working across the mediums of sculpture, installation and video, Guan Xiao defies simple classification with unlikely combinations of objects, images and media. Her work playfully addresses the museum context with anachronistic pairings of the ancient and futuristic, organic and inorganic in works that often allude to the activities of display or reproduction. Oil-paper umbrellas, camera tripods, car wheels, rope and protective knee pads are incorporated within anthropomorphic sculpture and expansive installations that employ artisanal details and elements that are cast from nature alongside others that are mass produced, digitally manipulated or 3D printed. Her exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien will present a new body of sculpture where the essential subjects of food and shelter form the central part of an elaborate and wildly inventive narrative.