Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
11-1994
Format
Article
Exhibition Event Title
我来自广州 ("I'm from Guangzhou")
Date of Exhibition Event
1995
Materials
Bathtub, goldfish, light, wood, plastic coat
Description
In this installation art, a bathtub is coated with transparent plastics. Inside the wrapped tub, two live goldfish swim in their essential aquatic environment. The playful goldfish -- and even the object of the bathtub -- may play into the symbolism for liberty and hedonism (bathtub). Within the water-filled tub installed a (presumably) water-proof light in gold. Suspending above the tub is another light (though this one is not turned on as shown in the photograph). The overall environment which contains the bathtub is rendered in red with the environment lighting, as we can tell by the photograph. ([the writing published on the blog is cited from "Hong Kong Economic Newspaper, Feb 15, 1995, C8"] oxyn, 大尾象专题(2)“我来自广州” 当代中国装置作品新登场·大尾象工作组, July 20, 2013, available on https://site.douban.com/215807/widget/notes/14061107/note/289651539/) (Jerry Wu'23).