The installation comprises over 10.000 items collected by Song Dong’s mother, Zhao Xiangyuan, over five decades – ranging from a section of the family home, to metal pots and plastic bowls to blankets, bottle caps, toothpaste tubes and toys.
Above: ‘BEIJING’ (fragment, 2008), below: ‘Midtown’ (1998), by Sarah Morris.
The first film and latest film by Sarah Morris, both alienating and seducing at the same time. ‘BEIJING’ shot during the Olympic Games in 2008, ‘Midtown’ 10 years earlier in New York City.
The Window of the World is a theme park located in Shenzhen in the People’s Republic of China. It has about 130 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 48 hectares.
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Also: In the next weeks pietmondriaan.com will have an irregular connection with China.
Space: Expo ‘Also Space’ (1-16 may) at C-Space in Beijing, organised by Reinaart Vanhoe.
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