Illumination

Bai Yiluo

白宜洛

Production date
2011

Object Detail

Media
antique household lamps
Measurements
installed approximately 600 cm diameter
Notes
Illumination references the disappearance of everyday objects that were once essential to every Chinese household: it presents the artist’s collection of dozens of rusty old oil lamps from all over China. This fairy-tale collection of artefacts, inviting an Aladdin-like meditation on wishes and dreams, speaks of obsolete technologies and simpler lives lost in the transition to modernity. From his memories of childhood in a country just emerging from the Cultural Revolution, and the monotony of his early life on the factory assembly line, Bai Yiluo has forged a sophisticated art practice that connects the past with the present day.
Accession number
2012.003
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