Everyday objects transformed

If you weren't standing inside the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between what you see here at an exhibition and an ordinary office building.

Most people would walk past, without a second glance at an installation that's a key draw at the ongoing Thing World, an experimental art exhibition until July 7.

Visitors might mistake the installation for a real office with desks, chairs, coffee mugs, computers and all other paraphernalia that you see at a workplace. Called Finance Department, the life-size replica of a real office is the work of Beijing-based artist Wang Yu-yang. This won Wang, 35, much attention at an Art Basel show in Miami Beach in the United States last December.