As installed in C2 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Consuming the entire room, this installation calls attention to the rapid expansion of the modern Chinese city. The video monitor presents a looped series of tilted trees with one pine tree fully uprooted. This symbolizes how humans have distanced themselves from their natural heritage, creating an unstable world.
All the elements in the exhibit were purchased from Chinese families who were evicted by the government and were forced to live in new surroundings. A plastic closet, placed on the gallery floor, houses a single living fish. The only method of viewing is peeking through tiny holes in the plastic. Through each hole the spectator views a different distorted picture of the fish’s environment.