Quote from the artist: 'This project comprises texts from the book Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of materia medica), which the famous naturalist and medical practitioner Li Shizhen wrote in 1590, and images of famous pictures and works of art from Western contemporary art history, such as Piero Manzoni's cants of the artist's feces, Marcel Duchamp's deadflies being stuck to his foot cast, On Kawara's daily calendar, and Joseph Beuys's foot bath. With 108 Cards, waht I wan to tackle is the question of how people look at objects. The discipline of art- that is, the artists, people who look at objects, and the related places of exchange that museums provide- has already formed a rather fixed and closed view of objects. I try to make a comparison with other disciplines. When we juxtapose familiar images (objects) in contemporary art with pharmaceutical objects with the same label but belonging to a different time-space, it is not only a reminder of the functions these objects once had; it is more that, in doing so, we achieve a different way of experiencing and using these objects.'
Online
Chinese - Simplified, 
English
1993
France
Cardboard tube with printed cards inside
6.9x 20.9x 6.9 cm
artwork documentation
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