Zhou Yan Contemporary Chinese Art Archive 周彦当代中国艺术档案
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Date
1995
Format
Photograph
Location of Exhibition Event
LinHe Road, Guangzhou, China
Materials
Action art with bricks
Dimensions
Recording Length: 90 minutes
Description
In this action art, the artist LIN Yilin constructed a wall with prepared bricks on a bustling street in his city Guangzhou China. To build the wall, LIN Yilin only carried one brick with him from the sidewalk and treaded to-and-fro on the street until the fruition of the wall. After the wall reached a moderate shape and size, it started to hamper the transportation -- vehicles and passengers would make concessions to circumvent the LIN-made obstacle. The work, adding together its reception, may be LIN's investigation of the power of individual (note that the wall is finished on the artist's own) in the backdrop of Modernity. (M+ Collection, 安全渡過林和路 Safely Manoeuvering Across Linhe Road, Mapping Chinese Art from 1972-2012: Selections from the M+ Collection, available on https://collections.mplus.org.hk/tc/objects/safely-manoeuvering-across-linhe-road-2012594; the source (Mapping Chinese Art from 1972-2012) is available on https://sigg.mplus.org.hk/) (Jerry Wu'23).
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