Luofu Dream - Pink Pink
Liang Tao
梁桃
Production date
2006
Object Detail
Media
wood, sponge, wire, fabric
Measurements
installed approximately 150 x 400 x 400 cm
Notes
Luofu Dream: Pink Pink (2006) riffs on the seventh-century tale of a man who visits sacred Mount Luofu, falls in love with a beautiful woman, then wakes to find that she was only a plum-blossom fairy. The installation consists of a bed woven from woody vines, twin pillows, two hairbrushes, and a gigantic pair of slippers, all sprouting red and pink tentacles and phallic-looking fruits. “Life is like a dream,” says the artist, who notes that in Chinese, brushing one’s hair “is a metaphor for keeping your emotions in order”. She created the work as a reminder that dreams can be as treacherous as they are alluring. All too often, the fantasy is a lie, “pretentious, insubstantial, disloyal”, and the promised soft repose becomes a tangled, twisted trap.
Accession number
2007.056