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Renee Yu JinMeteoric Wheels
2026.08.08-2026.08.10
16A, Building B, Wanxia Taifuyuan, Nanshan, Shenzhen

Wheels on the ground, moving forward; meteors in the sky, falling.

In Wanxia Village, Shekou, where uneven terrain, residential buildings, and narrow alleyways overlap, the artist looks down from her sixteenth-floor studio onto rooftops, roads, and passing traffic. Returning to street level, her perspective shifts with the sloping streets, while activity overhead continually reminds her of the vertical and directional relations of the space around her.

This open studio presents a series of works and experiments made during Renee Yu Jin’s residency. Beginning with gestures such as folding, imprinting, pinching, wrapping, and suspending, she works across sculpture, painting, and photography, observing how actions leave traces in materials and how everyday things acquire new forms through processes of material translation. The artist brings movements traveling in different directions into the same moment: an upward explosion and a piece of clothing falling down, an impression lifted from the ground and a night sky hung on the wall, a white goose crossing the road, and a child trying to finish two books at once. They take place in Shekou in 1979, in Wanxia today, and in any carriage of the metro.

The title Meteoric Wheels is drawn from Wang Jibing’s poetry collection Low Flight. Here, the meteor does not mean escape; it is the light that things close to the ground reveal for a moment.