bio/
Kailun Yang is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fear, loss, and private and social interactions. His sculpture embraces conceptual strategies and abstract visions using natural materials - abaca skin pulp, bamboo, grass, metal, glass, thread, and human organics.
Kailun’s current drawings narrate safety and comfort in uncertainty. Through his drawings, he explores the coexistence of security and insecurity and uses playfulness to bring harmony and balance.
Kailun earned his 2020 MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies. Kailun has shown his work in China, Japan, and the United States.
artist statement/
I create human-scale sculpture that explores the destabilizing evolution of cultural metamorphosis. My work communicates this fear of change and loss by reorienting both personal perception and cultural convention.
I de-materialize natural elements into their component fibers then re-animate them into a new body alive with a refreshed nature and character. I use symbiotic materials – abaca skin pulp, bamboo, grass, metal, glass, thread, human organics, and drawing materials to embody my mutations. The structure of my work is fluid and transformative.
contact/
Kailun Yang (Quentin)
quentinkailun@gmail.com