Artists

Yugoexport, Tonic

Press release

This summer, Yugoexport presents the founding objects of a Shanghai-based art collective, Tonic, at palace enterprise. The exhibition draws on cinematic memory space from Irena Haiduk's film Nula (2028), installed in the gallery as a living room called Ursula, named after two Ursulas: the author Ursula K. Le Guin (whose book The Dispossessed imagined a society without possessions) and Ursula, the fictional sea witch (who in the global imaginary commons transacts legs for voice in Walt Disney's rendition of The Little Mermaid). Tonic's Host Zipper Sofa System (2026) and Waiting Objects (2026) are available for use, devised by Irena Haiduk and produced with Jiantong Zhao. The exhibition also features works by Yugoexport, a blind and non-aligned oral corporation whose founding logic is equivalence, loyalty, and familial solidarity between people and things.