"Clean Break" (决裂)
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On the couch my therapist always asks, peering at me inquisitively over the edge of his horn-rimmed glasses, 'Why do you clean so obsessively?' Every vase, every oddly-shaped curio, every knob at the end of a staircase, every fluted silver candlestick is a monument to my OCD. In my waking hours I always imagine myself cleaning. To bring on the necessity of sleep I dream of a cabinet full of trinkets and the beaten family silver instead of vaulting sheep. I have heard of people who orgasm spontaneously from the accidental touch of stranger in an elevator. Well, I derive something of the same kind of carnal pleasure from handling a porcelain plate or a deeply engraved salver and then stripping it back, stroke by loving stroke, to spotless, newly-minted perfection.
On the couch my therapist always asks, peering at me inquisitively over the edge of his horn-rimmed glasses, 'Why do you clean so obsessively?' Every vase, every oddly-shaped curio, every knob at the end of a staircase, every fluted silver candlestick is a monument to my OCD. In my waking hours I always imagine myself cleaning. To bring on the necessity of sleep I dream of a cabinet full of trinkets and the beaten family silver instead of vaulting sheep. I have heard of people who orgasm spontaneously from the accidental touch of stranger in an elevator. Well, I derive something of the same kind of carnal pleasure from handling a porcelain plate or a deeply engraved salver and then stripping it back, stroke by loving stroke, to spotless, newly-minted perfection.
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 (art direction) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor)
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 (art direction) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction) • Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor)
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