ZHENG QINYU 郑琹语
Zheng Qinyu, takes the power of the written word in the tradition of Barbara Kruger and unifies it with the Chinese fetish and compulsion for luxury goods. Composed as an urban metropolis, The Mall (2016) is fabricated as a city block of slick skyscrapers, literally enclosing the objects of consumerist desires. Yet, the goods encased in the light boxes are far from real; they are small 3D printed replicas that serve no function or purpose except as objects trapped in glass containers akin to the inviolable exotic specimens that were once enshrined in the “cabinet of curiosities.”
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