"Chip Crack Charity" (缺口裂纹慈善)
// BLURB //
Tap, tap, tap. Clicks and pops and creeks and noises you can’t even make an onomatopoeia for. Tink, tink, tink, and something slowly becoming muffled, on a journey somewhere between a long scratch and a digging thud. The repairs may wake you from a sound sleep but they need to be done. The fixers, movers, shapers and molders have to have their allotment of disturbance, lest they halt their lovely shaping. Have some sympathy for those cacophonous, careening symphonies of upkeep, seeping like sewer water into your ears. Keep closely in mind that you’ll assuredly be a conductor one day yourself.
Tap, tap, tap. Clicks and pops and creeks and noises you can’t even make an onomatopoeia for. Tink, tink, tink, and something slowly becoming muffled, on a journey somewhere between a long scratch and a digging thud. The repairs may wake you from a sound sleep but they need to be done. The fixers, movers, shapers and molders have to have their allotment of disturbance, lest they halt their lovely shaping. Have some sympathy for those cacophonous, careening symphonies of upkeep, seeping like sewer water into your ears. Keep closely in mind that you’ll assuredly be a conductor one day yourself.
EDITION, MEDIA, SIZE & WEIGHT
One-of-a-kind work, issued as a unique edition. A preliminary prototype may exist within the collective’s archive and may serve as a museum proof for future exhibition or provenance traceability.
Shanghai 2025
RGB LED display, oil painting on Plexiglass, Chinese ink on Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
120(W)×120(H)×5.5(D) cm // 46 kg
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
132(W)×132(H)×21(D) cm // 86.9 kg
EXPOSURE
“Yaoguai” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Wang Chuanwen 王传文 (painting) • Shengqiu Li 李生秋 (calligraphy) • Helen Chen 陈韵涵 (calligraphy art direction) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (performance & production supervisor) • Ryan Nimmo (blurb)
One-of-a-kind work, issued as a unique edition. A preliminary prototype may exist within the collective’s archive and may serve as a museum proof for future exhibition or provenance traceability.
Shanghai 2025
RGB LED display, oil painting on Plexiglass, Chinese ink on Vietnamese linen embedded in hand cast resin, teakwood frame
120(W)×120(H)×5.5(D) cm // 46 kg
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
132(W)×132(H)×21(D) cm // 86.9 kg
EXPOSURE
“Yaoguai” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Wang Chuanwen 王传文 (painting) • Shengqiu Li 李生秋 (calligraphy) • Helen Chen 陈韵涵 (calligraphy art direction) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (performance & production supervisor) • Ryan Nimmo (blurb)
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