Feeding the Load, Regulated Dosage
Cass Yao, Echo Youyi Yan
Curated by Rui Jiang
FRISSON Gallery
141 Attorney St, New York, NY
February 19 - April 4, 2026
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White floor sculpture by Cass Yao
Three wall scuptures by Cass Yao
Left sculpture by Cass Yao
From the curator Rui Jiang
“Mutation is not a choice; it is an inevitability, a force without a face, an appetite without a master. It slithers through the bones of species and individuals alike, feeding on repetition, on need, on the quiet violence of adaptation. A body bends—because it must, because the pressure is ceaseless, because stillness is death. But in the bending, something else occurs: a mutation that escapes its captors, a crack that refuses to close, an organism that shifts, twists, and, in its disobedience, breeds something new. The body is not a sculpture but a wound that will not scar over, an opening where power and resistance knot together in an unholy, unending embrace. Here, in the grotesque mess of transformation, nothing is fixed, and nothing is free.
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“Echo Yan’s work gnaws at the slow violence of domestication, where bodies do not break but soften—rounded, dulled, folded into furniture, tamed into usability. A body adapts, conforms, and forfeits its edges, but the act of yielding is itself a burden, a pressure that sinks into bone and muscle. In her work, the line between life and object collapses—flesh becomes a passive structure, while objects grow eerie appendages of sentience. This is the posthuman recursion: the chair and the body, the egg and the organism, the organic and the synthetic—each absorbing, metabolizing, and reforming into the other. A chair sprouts thorns, rendering it uninhabitable. An egg, fragile and trembling, is both a vessel of life and a pre-packaged commodity, its smooth surface concealing the brutal mechanics of reproduction and control. Limbs retract, not in fear, but in reconfiguration; spines reorient toward the ground, not in submission, but as an evolution into new architecture. A body does not have to be upright to be alive. A body does not have to be human to move.”
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