Seal the Fog, Again

Seal the Fog, Again showcases Yulin Gu and Sha Luo’s first collaborative project as an artist duo, exploring how cruelty wraps itself in innocence through two of their childhood games: Ring Toss and Balloon Shooting.

In these games players would win prizes by throwing rings and bursting balloons. In China, the prizes would often cruelly include small live animals such as rabbits, cats, and birds. The joy of ‘winning’ the animals depended on accurately bursting balloons, encouraging destruction and conquest to win rewards.

These games were part of Yulin and Sha’s childhood and cultural experiences. As they reflect on these games today, feelings of encapsulation and detachment arise. Seal the Fog, Again represents these feelings using ready-made/found objects, ceramics, glass, and other materials, creating new “game prizes” that are broken and fragile. Their work acts as a restoration and reconstruction of an ended game. Here and now, prizes are only to be seen, rather than continued to be played with.

Yulin and Sha’s first worked together in their 2023 show, Seal the Fog, curated by Yindi Chen at Tutu Gallery.

Tapas Banquet
The denouement of a six-week group show at Living Skin. An all-day gathering of artistic and culinary practices, the finale saw the return of previously shown artworks assembled in new configurations, this time spread out across the entire apartment, fused with other artist’s work, accompanied fare from three culinary artists.