Rubble from Melbourne construction site was placed in the exhibition space at Mars Gallery, using a photo of Xin Jian villages in Beijing at the end of 2017 to symbolize this historical witness of the cleaning away the have-not end of the population.
When I saw on WeChat how people were being caged in time after time behind barbed wire and fences, and their personal space wantonly trampled underfoot in the name of the Chinese zero-tolerance policy towards the Covid pandemic, I kept hearing the words of former US President Ronald Reagan ringing in my ears when he cried out in front of the Brandenburg Gate on the border of West Berlin on June 12, 1987: “Tear down this wall!”
The design informed by the conception of the co-existence of straight and skew. When I was young, things were generally tangled up: straight and skew, right and wrong, black and white. they pervade your thinking and creating.
In male-dominated discourse, a woman’s vagina is the shubjest of insult. In his famous The Tropic of Cancer, the American novelist Henry Millar compared the vagina to “an ugly notch, a never healing wound and a despicable ditch.
Creation time: From November 2007 to … Materials: Steel-beams, apples, glass. Dimensions: 280cm X 560cm Location: Dongying Studio, Xiedao studio, Huantie studio, T3 studio #4, Beijing, China. About “ X ” X Unknow Or Know Fresh apples Deposited Vanishing Does or does not Time Transoend the unknown Xiao Lu 20 February 2012, Huantie studio, …
