Catalogue of solo exhibition by Wang Jin at Friedman Benda, New York in 2007. Wang Jin is a Beijing-based artist, whose powerful conceptual work reflects both his own personal experiences and the transformations of Chinese culture. His poetic oeuvre reverberates with history as it encounters the contemporary world. Artist biography is provided in the catalogue.

'For Wang, everything is temporal; his wall of ice would have melted, with or without the pillaging mob. His own PVC-gowned image is nothing short of spectral. And, in very recent works, his large-scale ceramic sculptures of bones and teeth, as well as a towering installation of vertebrae - self-referentially entitled Wang, and alluding to the interconnectedness between the artist, his work and his society - form a acknowledgement that, in the end, we all end up as piles of remains. The artist may be a hero, but he is ephemeral nonetheless.' - Aric Chen.