Song Dong in front of his installation in an atrium in MoMA.
(Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
Projects 90: Song Dong
Waste Note
June 24 – September 7 2009
MoMA, NYC
Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) explores notions of transience and impermanence with installations that combine aspects of performance, video, photography, and sculpture. Projects 90, his first solo U.S. museum show, presents his recent work Waste Not. A collaboration first conceived of with the artist's mother, the installation consists of the complete contents of her home, amassed over fifty years during which the Chinese concept of wu jin qi yong (物盡其用), or "waste not," was a prerequisite for survival. The assembled materials, ranging from pots and basins to blankets, oil flasks, and legless dolls, form a miniature cityscape that viewers can navigate around and through.
Curator:
Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art |
