take a seat, please

composite material, sound, 2014, Immigration Office, Bremen, Germany

请等候

综合材料,声音,2014, 移民局画廊,不来梅,德国

This work was exhibited in a group exhibition "Exhibition 01" in the Gallery Immigration Office in Bremen.

In the basement of the gallery, the artist built a waiting room. As a common thing, most immigration offices have a waiting room. A waiting room is also a common space in modern civil administration/service places. These waiting rooms usually have the popular decoration style, which is comfortable chairs, hanging pictures on the walls, potted plants on the tables, and windowsills. Of course, the waiting rooms in many places may be completely different, or they may not exist at all. In the installation, she summarised these common and distinctive features based on her experience. In the dark and wet basement of an old butcher’s shop, which now as a gallery room, she built up this unrealistic space. “As immigrants in history, we are waiting here. Did this place ever belong to us? It never belonged to anyone.”

The work is a room installation with a female voice calling various waiting numbers in Chinese, such as "number four, please go to the window of number three".

这件作品曾在不来梅移民局画廊的群展“展览01”中展出。

在画廊的地下室,艺术家建造了一个等候室。很多移民局办公室都有等候室。等候室也是现代民政/服务类场所常见的一个空间。这些等候室都惯用一种流行的装修风格:舒适的椅子,墙上的装饰画,桌子上的盆栽,看得到城市的窗户。当然,很多场所的等候室可能完全是另一番景象,或者根本不存在。在作品中,艺术家根据个人经验总结了这些鲜明的共同点。这个空间现在作为画廊的一部分(也不太被使用),曾经却是一家肉铺阴暗潮湿的地下室一角。艺术家在此建造了这个不切实际的等候室。“我们作为历史中的移民,在此等候,此地又何时属于过我们,过去它也从未属于过任何人。”

作品是一个空间装置,女声用中文呼唤着各个等候号码:“零零四号,请到三号窗口”。

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