The artists experiment with the techniques of weaving, embroidery, and cut paper to explore and comment upon the human condition in China.

Gao Rong shares her personal experience of living conditions in Beijing using cotton and foam to recreate a shabby corner of a building inspired by a housing facility where she once lived.  The stains and rust are softly rendered in delicate thread, combining traditional craft and conceptual art. Gao Rong reflects on her work and its correlation to temporary housing as, "a house that is not a home, fatigued but still inviting." The objects she recreates represent the memories of a young generation born in the 1980s in China.

Li Hongbo's work is inspired by the paper gourd, a children's toy; its complex shape opened his mind to the possibilities of paper forms. His paper figures explicitly address the dimensions of the human form.  Long, segmented limbs tumble out of their sockets like decorative paper dragons, emphasizing their fantastical appearance. "The challenge for Li Hongbo," says art critic Yin Shuangxi, "is to explore the cultural significance of paper rather than the craft of manipulating paper."

Wang Lei, who also utilizes paper as his medium, threads together toilet paper to create a rack of plain white garments and the pages of authoritative texts to weave rarified imperial robes. Wang Lei strips the garments of their function down to simply their form, using basic textiles to question the relationship between what we perceive versus what is real and challenges the ideas of the authorities of ownership when the objects are no longer what they appear.

Gao Rong, Li Hongbo, and Wang Lei are recent noteworthy graduates from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Their works have been exhibited in group shows at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing (2010) and the White Rabbit Foundation, Sydney (2010-2011).