Breaking news: On April 8, 2026, China Guardian's "Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art" auction officially commenced. Yu Ji's "Stone Flesh #1," estimated at HKD 190,000-250,000, hammered down at HKD 300,000, with a final price of HKD 360,000 including commission.Breaking personal auction record(Breaks the record set on June 7, 2025, by Poly Beijing's "Stone Meat Shadow No. 4" at CNY 230,000).

Contemplating the Essence of Life: Yu Ji's Classic "Stone Flesh" Series - Opening Work. "If the imperfection originates from the flesh, the flesh will find its own way, and the imperfection will then have life." —Yu Ji

Note: This work was published in 4 editions and 1 artist's private copy.

Yu Ji, who received her Master of Sculpture degree from the Academy of Fine Arts at Shanghai University in 2011, currently lives and works in New York. She is a post-80s female artist with outstanding achievements in sculpture and installation art, and has garnered international attention. Her work is like a contemporary archaeology of the "body" and the "environment." She often uses building materials such as cement and steel to create serene yet powerful suspense about life through partial sculptures of the body, exploring the interplay between the concrete and the abstract, completeness and incompleteness.

It breaks the record set on June 7, 2025, by Poly Beijing's "Stone Meat Overlapping Shadows No. 4" at CNY 230,000.

About the artist

Yu Ji creates art based on the concept of sculpting something beyond time and space. Her works, grounded in the passage of time and environment, exist as texts after being compressed and printed. She is the co-founder of the non-profit A M Art Space in Shanghai (founded in 2008). Her works have been exhibited in international art institutions in Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and at the 11th Gwangju Biennale. At the heart of Yu Ji's artistic practice is a re-examination of sculptural art, an expansion of its three-dimensional attributes, and a harmonization of the relationship between sculpture and the body, context, and narrative. As a series of interventionist practices, her installations, videos, and performance works, created from the medium itself and materials, exist both in space and continuously shape the space in which they are situated. In developing her own artistic language, Yu Ji constructs solid and moving statements through a rich vocabulary closely related to form, objects, humanity, and daily life.

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