The question of the individual is a central subject matter in Guan Xiao’s art, particularly the challenges of how one should not only navigate but harness the logic of time and speed and influx of technology while changing understandings of materiality and the burden of history. Using sculpture, installations and videos, the artist creates a suspended, rhythmic narration, in which traces of organic elements from the plant and animal world—such as leaves, flowers, tree trunks, bones—reshaped and distorted ordinary objects, and artificial materials stripped of their original function express a novel hybridization that challenges any visual or semantic hierarchy. Personal experience, past artistic traditions, digital materials, and everyday reality come together in Guan Xiao’s works in a vocabulary which is at once primordial and speculative. In the exhibition in Belgrade, the artist presents Rest In (2017), originally conceived for public display as part of the High Line Art program in New York. Through the presence of footprints and vertebrae-like casts, the work embodies an unidentified creature, alluding to a kind of paleontology of the future. The title suggests a moment of pause for these roaming corporeal subjects.