Yuange Sheng/ Summer Issue

Yuange, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (Architecture), explores the shifting relationship between structure, material, and life. Beginning with grids, modules, and architectural fragments, he transforms them through sculpture and image-making into unstable systems where structures collapse, deform, and reorganise as ongoing processes of becoming. In his practice, materials are not passive but act as agents with their own logic and tendencies, allowing forms to move between the organic and the artificial. His work also engages with memory and accumulation, using spatial fragments and material traces to construct states that resemble fossils or remains. Rather than offering fixed narratives, Yuange creates open and indeterminate conditions that invite viewers to reconsider how environments are constructed, inhabited, and continuously transformed.

This series of sculptural work reimagines the architectural unit as a fractured, body-like form suspended between collapse and reconstruction. Cast in concrete and plaster, the object appears both artificial and organic, its irregular surface disrupted by a central rupture. Instead of functioning as a traditional support system, the steel framework operates as a mechanism of intervention—piercing, binding, and stitching the form together. The mesh textile follows the fissures like a provisional skin, suggesting acts of repair that are at once surgical and improvised. Rather than restoring stability, these gestures expose a continuous state of becoming, where the “unit” is not fixed, but constantly negotiated between control and disintegration.