"Shanghai Laundering" (点滴上海)
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In Shanghai, even the laundry flirts. Shirts shimmy from bamboo poles like dancers on a stage, socks dangle with a little too much charm, and bedsheets billow like they’re whispering secrets to the breeze. It’s everyday life, sure, but doesn’t it feel like the city’s putting on a show just for you?
In Shanghai, even the laundry flirts. Shirts shimmy from bamboo poles like dancers on a stage, socks dangle with a little too much charm, and bedsheets billow like they’re whispering secrets to the breeze. It’s everyday life, sure, but doesn’t it feel like the city’s putting on a show just for you?
There’s a sly kind of wisdom in it, this parade of cotton and silk suspended against the skyline. A reminder that the simple things wink the loudest. Why hide behind the hum of a dryer when the sun wants to kiss your clothes and the wind insists on a slow dance?
And maybe that’s the trick to life, and love too: letting things hang loose, catching light at the right angle, knowing that what looks ordinary from afar can be dazzling up close. Life is long, the world is vast, but a shirt flirting with the afternoon breeze says, don’t overthink it, darling, just sway with me.
Because isn’t that what we’re all after? A little softness, a little sparkle, and a reason to pause on the balcony, tilt our heads, and smile at how even laundry can tease us into living.
EDITION, MEDIA, SIZE & WEIGHT
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2025
RGB LED display, 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
“Cyberfeminity” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Yang Ziqi 杨子奇 (performance) • 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) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2025
RGB LED display, 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
“Cyberfeminity” at island6 Shanghai
CREDITS
Yang Ziqi 杨子奇 (performance) • 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) • Tiara Alvarado-Leon (blurb)
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