The Bedroom / 寢室

2014
drawing, interview
pencial on tracing paper, 21 x 29.7 cm x 20 P
in cooperation with 10 retired workers in Shanghai, China
work commissioned by 10th Shanghai Biennale

In The Bedroom, Chihying sought out old Chinese workers who once worked on the production lines nea by Huangpu River industrial area in Shanghai, interviewing them about their former lives in the factories and their places of leisure after leaving the factories. The artist places special emphasis on imagery of sleep and the surrounding environment; during this process, the artist makes casual sketches of beds’ structures, nearby furnishings and decorations, dreams remembered, and so on. With these sketches as prototypes, Chihying has constructed a massive bed on the same scale as the streetlights at the entrance of the Powe Station of Art - a museum that had been renovated from the former Nanshi Power Plant. Such exaggerations revolving around the bed and the workers’ memories present a bizarre and amusing proclamation, implyin that the vestiges of memory and history are but dreams - mere recollections upon waking.

The drawing from Ms. Du

The drawing from Mr. Wei

© 2024 Musquiqui Lab

The Bedroom / 寢 室

© 2024
Musquiqui Lab

The Bedroom / 寢室