ARTIST PROFILE

Xiangyu He

  • China (b. 1986 in Liaoning)
  • Currently in Berlin, Germany.
4850g Gold, 62g Protein

4850g Gold, 62g Protein

  • 2014
  • Aluminum, 99.99 % pure gold, egg Overall:186.3 × 593 × 5 cm

  • Using traditional gilding techniques, egg cartons has been gilded before affixing a real egg. Eeggshells possess a certain degree of hardness as a material, it is a conceptual metaphor for materials and their social properties.

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    4850g Gold, 62g Protein | 2014

Using traditional gilding techniques, egg cartons has been gilded before affixing a real egg. Eeggshells possess a certain degree of hardness as a material, but this is not an allusion to a shift in the senses; it is a conceptual metaphor for materials and their social properties.