Everything We Create is Ourselves by He Xiangyu. 2013. Created as part of the Palate Project, 2011-2016.
He Xiangyu is a prominent Chinese contemporary artist based in Berlin and Beijing. Belonging to a generation who grew up during a period of rapid urbanisation in China, He is best known for exploring pertinent social, political and cultural themes with his experimental approach to art production.
One of He’s longest projects thus far - the execution of which his practice is centred upon - Palate Project spans six years between 2011 and 2016. It is represented by multiple works, including the installation piece Everything We Create is Ourselves. Palate Project explores from a “synaesthetic dimension”, displaying He’s use of a range of materials to delineate cognitive experience in visual form. True to the project’s name, Everything We Create is Ourselves employs the use of a set of bronze sculptures that reproduce the sensation of using one’s tongue to touch the roof of the mouth. Throughout Palate Project, He directs his focus towards the privileging of individual experience, in contrast to previous large-scale, depersonalised undertakings.
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