James Cohan will present Rumors, Ridicules, and Retributions an exhibition of new work by Yun-Fei Ji (CRF 2010) at the gallery’s Lower East Side location through Sunday, June 17.
This is Ji’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. In this body of work, Yun-Fei Ji turns his attention to the stories of people living in rural China. The realities of life outside the nation’s largest cities have largely been ignored by narratives of rapid urban growth. Rural lives are often governed by the whims of the powerful, robbing them of physical and spiritual rootedness. Ji is interested in the ways in which people enact their agency both individually and collectively in the face of these larger societal forces, often through subtle but willful acts of resistance.