The new commission comprises two films that combine stop-motion animation and musical form. Channel One blends real and imagined architectural props drawn from domestic and institutional spaces — childhood rooms, an art school, a Hong Kong art museum, a theatre, and a city — sites where alternative worlds are constructed. The film is punctuated by scenes of Yuan performing with these props, slipping between the roles of maker and puppeteer, and building remembered spaces which the artist and the Yěrén can inhabit interchangeably. In the ongoing search for this mythical creature, never confirmed to exist, the work turns to staged artifice as a means of conjuring its presence.

Channel Two presents the Wuhan-based band Hardcore Raver in Tears, led by musician Lu Yan, performing four original songs written in conjunction with the artist for the film. The projection spills across the gallery's walls and floor, while lyrics describing the Yěrén retain a sense of theatrical distortion. Drawing on punk and post-punk’s anti-establishment attitude, alongside jazz, vocal improvisation and pop, the work extends the figure of the artist through sonic and performative excess. As the boundary between music and noise begins to blur, its hybrid form brings fragmented constructed worlds into contrast with raw expression, mirroring the unstable position of the artist moving between structures of authority and the unruly landscape of the wild.