Known for his art concerns deeply about the social reality, Yang Jian doesn’t, however, assert immediately any affirmative judgment over the real events. Instead, he passes to the viewers the power of judge and examination as much as possible after engineering and switching on his work, an accessible structure that embodies the contradictory and tensile relationship that lies apart from the apparent reality and is discovered and extracted ingeniously by him.
The materials appear in his work are mainly of machinery, technologies and media. What interests him is the relation amongst the human’s survival conditions, implements, technologies and the changing approaches of the media’s dissemination of information. Skilled at revealing the reflexive relations and structure among and of different things, Yang Jian, with his unique, calm and accurate poetic quality, has a passion for spotting the position where the object of his choice is amid its own cultural relationships and rendering it a completely opposite kind.
杨健的创作大多与社会现实紧密相关，但并不直接对现实事件给出判断，努力提取和发现隐藏在现实背后的矛盾而富有张力的关系，并呈现出一个开放的结构，将判断和思考的权力以最大的可能交给观众。他的创作媒材大多跟机械、技术和媒体有关，感兴趣的是人的生存状态与工具、技术和日益被改变的媒体传播方式之间的关系，总是试图揭示各种事物之间的自反性关系与结构，并以一种冷静和精确的诗意，发现并赋予各种被挑选的物品与其本身在各自文化关系中所处位置完全相反的文化情境。