X Museum launches second triennial in Beijing

By Yang Xiaoyu | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-09-01 16:50
Share
Share - WeChat
Visitors view Hong Kong artist Wing Po So’s installation Polyglot: Mulberry at the second X Museum Triennial opens in Beijing on Aug 26, 2023. [Photo/Courtesy of X Museum]

For Hong Kong artist Wing Po So, who is from a family of traditional Chinese medicine doctors, her source of inspiration is inseparable from her emotional bond with the family’s pharmacy.

Growing up surrounded by a potpourri of dried-up medicinal ingredients, the artist is known for using medicinal ingredients and everyday objects to create large-scale installations and sculptures.

“Every medicine cabinet drawer contains a universe and within every organ, there is a cosmological system,” she said in a video introducing her work.

For the triennial, she created Polyglot: Mulberry, an installation consisting of 30-odd glass jars of Chinese medicine in which various parts of the mulberry—fruits, leaves, branches, roots and hosts, are stored. Like how she animated many of her previous artworks (for example, making sea shells move and breathe in the 2020 installation Sea Ear Hi-hat), she connected the dried or ground mulberry parts with small electrical devices so that they could move and make sounds similar to those of wind bells as if they are keen to strike up a conversation with any viewer nearby.

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next   >>|

Related Stories

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US