Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk (2018)
As installed for Art Toronto 2019's 'Special Projects' (Toronto, Canada)
6.10 x 1.52 x 2.13 m / 20 x 5 x 7 ft
Creating an imagined space of a scholar's collection of porcelain-ware or a Chinese antique dealer's shop, this installation explores how Chinese spaces and material culture
are formed and interpreted in the West, especially between the 1910s and 1940s, a period that saw the opening up of China's to new or foreign ideas, and the beginnings of a
new Chinese modernism, yet simultaneously, Chinese people overseas experienced extreme discrimination in North America and Europe. The title of this work
is taken from the memoirs of Lu Xun (considered as teh most influential writer in modern Chinese literature) in which he recounts stores of his childhood, and shares his
views on memories and their fallibility
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