Manor
Shih Yung-Chun
時永駿
Production date
2019
Object Detail
Media
iron, plywood, cotton, ceramic, plastic, leather
Measurements
installed 104 x 196 x 180 cm
Notes
‘Manor’ is an installation Shih Yung-Chun made of objects arranged on the actual bed in which he had slept for the past eight years. As a child he had lived in a Taiwanese army ‘military dependents’ village’ – communities established as provisional housing for Guomindang (KMT) soldiers after they retreated to Taiwan in 1949 – and all the objects in his installations and paintings relate to his memories of the simple, somewhat impoverished surroundings and distinct cultures of his home village, where he felt warm and secure. The bed was acquired second-hand from an employee dormitory in a military dependents’ village near his home in the mountains outside Taipei. On it he created a community of houses, barns, trees and creatures made from clay, symbolising the internal world of the dreamer who sleeps in this bed each night. Exhibited with the painting created from his photographs of the installation, the work creates a sense of an enclosed community, its fairy-tale whimsy undercut by the pair of legs and feet that emerge from under the bed.
Accession number
2019.053