Works in the Exhibition

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">Itchy on the Front, Numb on the Back</span>
Itchy on the Front, Numb on the Back
1987/2005
chair, plaster
31 1/2 x 25 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. (80 x 65.1 x 60 cm)


Blog

Watch your back, Betty.
Paul Schmelzer
Fri, 02 Dec 2005

Visitors to House of Oracles over the next few days will notice unusual behavior from the blood red-legged tarantula–dubbed Betty by our gallery monitors–in Huang Yong Ping’s installation The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin a Web (she’s enclosed in the cage above the table in this photo): the spider has flipped [...] read more »


Huang Yong Ping


Writings

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">The House of Oracles</span>
Why am I Afraid of Huang Yong Ping?
Philippe Vergne
2005

Things happen. As one works on an exhibition, things happen, coincidences, which make the project more, or less, relevant—whether or not these events are planned, whether or not they are the sweet fruit of a chance meeting. It might just mean that the project was meant to happen, at this place and... read more »


Lexicon

Knowledge

1. While knowledge is often held up as the pinnacle of human achievement, it has throughout history been in the precarious position of being compromised by... read more »


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