Tong Kunniao — Just Stay In The Cold

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Tong Kunniao makes use of products of our throwaway society. For Tong, the endless supply of objects that end up in resale shops, flea markets, and dumpsters form a substructure for the semiotics of the built world. He describes this seemingly limitless flow of consumer goods as a “bad infinity” and the role of the artist as a scatological scavenger who performatively explores its depths. What special traces and stories can be found or imagined in the found pieces, what they reveal about the city and its people, we will associatively experience in  Tong Kunniao’s sensual and obstinate objects. Equipment and small machines brought  from China serve as a framework for the new mixed media works that will be shown at Hua International.