Zhang Ning graduated from the designer maker program at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. The direction of her work explores the entangled relationship between objects and human behavior.

Yang Yafei graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. His works often use industrial readymades to blur the definition of objects and play with the idea of power of public space, attempting to derive industrial production relations through ready-made industrial components.

Cometabolism Studio is a design and art research studio established by designer Zhang Ning and artist Yang Yafei.The duo have collaborated on several art and design projects as long-time friends and expect to rethink the creative process under the ruins of the post-industrial heritage. In 2020, they established Cometabolism Studio to explore the possibility of reactivating mass-produced industrial metabolites such as industrial components and blurring their function in space, allowing art to intervene in everyday space. At the same time, through digital generation and other technologies, they explore undefined art objects that can blur the border between the real and the virtual.

Material：Acrylic，Tin，Joint

Size：L14*W14*H70cm, L14*W14*H50cm, L14*W14*H20cm

In traditional Chinese handicrafts, tin is molded into daily utensils through molds. In modern times, tin is used as a welding material in industrial production, and its characteristics connect ancient and modern life.

Cometabolism studio selects parts containing tin from daily life and combines them into a pattern of intertwined branches, which is cast as a connecting piece through stone mold. This connecting piece is not functional, but rather reintroduces it into people's daily lives.

The work emphasizes the flexible material properties of tin and the importance of its "connection". The pattern of stone mold casting is only one possibility, and its form can be infinitely varied, constantly exploring new possibilities for stone mold casting tin and contemporary digital production methods.

The three works on display have no precise function, it can be lamps, vases, sculptures, candlesticks, or even jewellery worn by the user, depending on the scene and their needs. The works attempt to blur the definition of functional objects.