Yeni Mao: Love Songs presents cyborg assemblages in which found or bronze-cast objects — collected stones, glass, articulated ceramics, and cows' tongues cast in bronze — are cradled in hand-made nickel-plated steel armatures that emerge from the gallery's architecture. Though referencing industrial production, each sculpture is made by hand in Mao's Mexico City studio, grinding marks and welded lines remaining visible beneath the mirror-like surface. Viewers navigate the work bodily — avoiding sharp spikes, crouching to see internal structures, finding themselves reflected in the polished metal — the laboring body placed in negotiation with the apparatus it desires.
