The shop window doll hanging from the sealing recalls the appearance of stalagtites hanging in caves. Regards one the shop window doll as symbol for consumer behavior and commodity fetishism, thus with its exposing also the erotism of fetish related advertisement, otherwise hidden, is led openly before eyes.
My artistic involvement with the famous „Dao de jing“ by Laozi began in 2001, in preparation for my first visit to China.
Every day over the course of four years I transcribed a phrase of this basis text of Chinese heritage – reproducing it sentence by sentence both in its original lettering as well as in two German translations.
The sketches for an installation, which is not yet carried out, base upon an already tired and half-observing visit of the Confucius Temple in Beijing.
Irene Dapunt busy itself in the last years in their work with the relation of language and picture, text and character. Beside large sized canvases usually small objects and first of all work on paper developed.
Endless Line
Chinese cities are cities in transformation – transformation in a dimension and velocity which fascinates and frightens us at the same time. The city’s image permanently avoids documentation, it disintegrates and recomposes itself each moment.
© text and images courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum Library - Harvard College
Tibetan - Moslem War in West Kan-su, text by Joseph Francis Rock
Installation [1 video-dvd 2.40 min including audio + 8 flags 25cm high + 1 banner mounted on 2 wooden sticks 125 cm high] 2008/2010
