| Title or content of the project: A Plane of Migrant Worker Lao Du |
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Artist(s) / Organization(s): Xiao Naihua
Media(s): Installation
Date: 2008-4-21
Venue(s): Bailian Xijiao Shopping Mall |
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Description:
Although the most advanced traffic tool in the world, plane, is no longer a wonder to people, most people still regard it as a mechanical magic. The scientific principle behind it is so mysterious. How can such a giant creation, which is much heavier than the air, fly high in the air? Plane represents high-technology. In the spiritual world, the symbol of plane can represent dream, dynamics, speed and accomplishment.
People who own their own private plane is very rare. But most people can afford the fight tickets. While in the case of migrant workers, they usually choose to take train, for fight tickets are somewhat beyond their affordability. Facing the abstract symbol of a plane, migrant workers might have quite complex feelings.
To some extent, everyone has a "plane" in his mind. Compared with the planes in real, the physical shape of planes in people's mind may be quite simple and crude. However, seen from another perspective, simple and crude as they are, such planes embody the purity of dreams. |
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