King and Queen No.2
Ouyang Chun
欧阳春
Production date
2018
Media
assemblage of found objects - wooden cabinet, plastic bed pans, wood, concrete
Measurements
135 x 64 x 44 cm
Notes
Ouyang Chun created complex installation works by assembling furniture and objects collected from recently abandoned university residence buildings. The raw materials for King and Queen came from the old employees’ residence buildings of Xi’an University of Technology, where the artist lived with his parents in the 1980s. From May 2017 to March 2018, he went to Xi’an three times to look for materials before the whole compound was demolished. He collected nearly 12 tons of detritus discarded by the old residents and took it back to Beijing. In the late 1960s, the previous version of the university and its faculty members moved to Xi’an from Beijing due to political policy; they continued to live in that city for several decades. As they come from different areas in China, living in Xi’an became a challenge for them. Imbued with time and memories, these traces of the past were returned to Beijing by Ouyang Chun. (adapted from ShanghArt Gallery exhibition text)
Accession number
2018.062