Definition of acnestis: The part of an animal's skin that it cannot reach to scratch itself - usually the space between the shoulder blades. (source: Wiktionary)

This work by Yu Ji, realized for this exhibition, consists in a narrative video.

“It recounts the behaviour of a young corpulent man in the summer, revealing influences of a surrealist corporal nature on himself and others. As liberty of behaviour is turned into a virtual performance, objectivity and truthfulness of the corporal existence become fake when confronted to the outside world, they sometime tickle our body, stressing our nerves out and making us feel the eternity of its existence. This shows a certain true aspect of this false objectivity. However, when we are bored, we can only use imagination to feel its influence and its emptiness, we live in the other's culture. A fabricated play of truth and fake, just like an unreachable itch, raveled, the same way as a cat would try to use paws to scratch, tongue to lick or teeth to bite a certain small unreachable part of its back…There will always be an acnestis.”
-- Yu Ji, 2009.10.22.

Yu Ji born in Sichuan in 1965, graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1992, he lives and works in Beijing. His works mainly consist in videos, photographs, performances and installations. He participated to various exhibitions in China and abroad, such as "The First Triennial of Chinese Art", Guangzhou Arts Museum, Guangzhou, (China, in 2002), "The Biennale of Contemporary Chinese Art in Montpellier" (France, in 2005), "Building Code Violations II", Long March Space, Beijing (China, in 2008). Yu Ji’s exhibition will be held in BizArt Art Center from October 31st to November 30th, 2009.