Sexy Green by Fengyang Jiang

Object / Gender&Sexuality NewTalentsByKlimt02

Published: 29.07.2024

I can always see jade.
In history books, in museums, in shops, in my mum's jewellery box. It's famous and prestigious. It's hard to find a Chinese person, from a child to an old man, who doesn't know what jade is.
It is like a song that has been sung for thousands of years, with a new version for each generation, but still using the same name today.

Jade is the shadow we shape with our hands, the moon we raise to the sky.
It is a prop for ceremonies, a burial implement, a symbol of kingship, and a gentleman's imagery. It is what the culture of an era is like.
While the shadow always follows the body, jade always follows people's concepts and lives and changes, or is changed.
It is human beings who constantly reshape jade, and it is also human beings who constantly give jade new meanings and images.
For me, jade doesn't need to hang in the sky all the time, I want it to be different from the past. It doesn't have to be whole, complete, indestructible and superior. It is gentle, clear, and cool to the touch. The greenness spreads away and it can dot every part of life. I'd like to see it come to life in a more lighthearted and fun image.

So there's the bitten donut, the crisp, the condom, the heel of the shoe that laughs as you walk. The combination of items that can be found everywhere in our lives is what we have at our fingertips. They are ordinary and vivid, relaxed yet unique.

I still want to see jade often, just not in books or museums anymore. It can be on the couch, on the carpet, in the box of leftovers at the dinner table.
I want jade not to be the moon in the sky, I want it to be the life and times held in my hands.