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The sculptural work Untitled was created by Hu Xiaoyuan in 2008 using wooden frames and silk. It consists of two rectangular sculptures, each measuring about 160 centimetres high and 101 centimetres wide. They hang on the wall side by side.

One of the sculptures is a vertical rectangular white wooden frame with a piece of white silk stretched over it. The silk is thin, translucent, smooth, and wrinkle-free. The strips of wood that make up the frame is about as wide as the narrow side of a credit card. You can see the wood grain on the frame’s surface. Stepping closer, there are line patterns painted in black on the silk that look almost identical to the wood grain underneath them. The wood grain is a combination of dense thin lines. Some of them are curves and some form concentric circles like tree rings.

The other sculpture also consists of a thin piece of white silk, but this time it is almost transparent. The fabric is sewn at the top and bottom to form tubes affixed with wooden rods, giving the work the appearance of a hanging scroll painting. Painted in the upper-middle part of the fabric and taking up almost half of the surface of the work is an image that looks like the cross-section of a tree trunk. The tree rings are visible, resembling a series of concentric circles. The rings towards the centre are further apart, while the larger rings towards the outer edge gradually become denser. They are painted in a grass-green colour with parts showing a hint of blue. Between the rings, the silk fabric's original white colour is visible.

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