Forbidden City, 2015
Financial Times stock listings, acrylic, pumice and sand on canvas and sail cloth
150 x 200 x 5 cm
59 1/2 x 78 1/2 x 2 in
59 1/2 x 78 1/2 x 2 in
Forbidden City foregrounds a ‘nail house’ against the landscape of the Forbidden City, a sacred site in China that holds equally profound socio-political significance following events that took place at...
Forbidden City foregrounds a ‘nail house’ against the landscape of the Forbidden City, a sacred site in China that holds equally profound socio-political significance following events that took place at Tiananmen Square in 1989. The city appears as a symbol of power and civilisation, but is conversely depicted as a sequence of distant lines in the sands of time, inferring a sense of deep time that renders the rise and fall of human empires as mere points in a constantly cyclical history.
Exhibitions
Here Be Dragons ( 04/30/2016 to 07/17/2020 )The Abyss Stares Back ( 10/09/2015 to 11/20/2015 )