Design 2007 - Instruments of Torture
Shi Jinsong
史金淞
Production date
2007
Object Detail
Media
steel
Measurements
installed 123 x 220 x 51 cm
Notes
Taking “cutting edge” to its literal limit, Shi Jinsong uses black humour and black-painted steel to question our relationship to designer objects. A Buddhist, he believes attachment to these modern must-haves makes us slaves to them and to the power structures behind them. His TV, coffee table and speakers are all guillotines, elegantly designed to decapitate their owners—unless they become as cold, hard and cruel as the objects of their desire
Accession number
2008.069