NoFootsteps — Echo Youyi Yan

No Footsteps Return
RAINRAIN Gallery, 110 Lafayette Street, Suite 201, New York NY 10013
Curated by Chiarina Chen
July 11—August 9, 2025
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From the curator Chiarina Chen:

Created for this exhibition, Echo Yan’s sculptural Screen shifts the lens to the ordinary home. Composed of pine, resin, lace tablecloths, and bits of household debris, this four-panel divider presents not a boundary but a zone of slow absorption. Across each panel, bodies blur into objects: limbs contort into chair legs, furniture sprouts skin, tools begin to breathe. The household swallows the figure until it’s no longer clear where one ends and the other begins. Her materials soften, bend, and cling, calmly staging the horror of the mundane. Here, metamorphosis is not explosive but held, erotically contained, folding struggle, ambiguity, and power into its own shape.

Screen
2025
Pine, Douglas fir, resin, lace tablecloth, metal, papier-mâché, epoxy clay, salt
69 x 70 x 25 inches

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