This exhibition gives us some scenes of people living with dogs, the artist herself has dogs, and there must be some 'stories' or 'accidents' involved. Wang Yao is very good at capturing the details of these stories, and has precisely cut into the points where the emotions between human and dog are related, portraying subtle expressions and movements, creating some witty and harmonious images. These works offer perspectives - the dog's perspective, the child's perspective, the family's perspective, the artist's perspective - that blend together to create a new dimension of observation. You can hardly judge correctly the emotional connection between a human and a dog, before you actually own a dog, or, before it owns you. We need this dimension of observation in order to experi- ence this new mode of 'relationship'.

Like when we read Camus's L'Étranger, in which we experience the rela- tionship between people and dog. In it he depicts a very tense relation- ship between man and dog, in which man and dog pull each other to and fro, often on the pavement "you stare at me, I stare at you, the dog is afraid, the man is hated." I read a survey that said that more novelists and artists had cats than dogs, saying that it was because they liked solitude, and that compared to the kind of relationship Camus described, cats seemed quieter and less bothered by you, unlike dogs, which had to be around people, and artists and novelists probably didn't like to be disturbed by others. I don't know if Camus ever had a dog, but he's only talking about one side here. Dogs are around people most of the time, and when they are not, they play in their own world, lazing, relaxing and relaxing alone, outside the 'outskirts' of human relationships, just as Wang Yao's work depicts.

Shiba Inus are a bit in between, like cats and dogs, so they seem to be able to have their own 'solitude' on the one hand, while 'pulling hard' with humans on the other, which is the two sides of Wang Yao's series. We have seen many Shiba Inus "pulling and tugging" with their owners on the road, but we can also see him here, quietly.