LV Forest
Bu Hua
卜桦
Production date
2010
Object Detail
Media
video animation (colour, sound)
Measurements
5 min 7 sec
Notes
LV Forest (2010) features Bu Hua’s feisty schoolgirl character once again, at first dancing demurely, before riding triumphantly on skeletal monsters, in a savage skewering of China’s rampant consumerism, competition and inequality. The work is more nightmare than fairy-tale. Naked women fight each other, slapping and kicking against a black background in an allegory of China’s dog-eat-dog aspirational world. The artist is satirising what she describes as the ‘unreliable sisterhood’ of competitors who post their triumphant lives on social media: owning more, achieving more, earning more. In contrast, Bu Hua also wants to show the beauty and tenderness in the world, through the innocence of a world of memory, of small animals and clockwork toys, harking back to a simpler time.
Accession number
2010.003