I chose Rest In because it’s essentially a very sinister, toxic looking birdbath. It’s certainly the most non-objective work in the show and as such I think it should be seen as a thing in itself, for the viewer to interpret as he or she wishes. Guan Xiao is a young female artist making radical sculpture in china, a hyper-fast growing economy that owes its growth to a mixture of authoritarianism and free market capitalism.


