INHALE, EXHALE
Discarded advertisement frame, timber, black perspex,
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, The Bund, Shanghai, China
Trace for the Swatch collection
2019
Exhale is constructed from an empty, discarded and scarred advertisement frame, containing images of a creased parted mouth and cracked alabaster stone. The pink stone slab was found inside a drive-thru stone supermarket in the Fujian province, an area famous for its importation and exportation of stone in China. The opposing image is a double exposed film still, from a re-staging of an advertisement on East Nanjing Road, Shanghai. The frame and images are bound together by a double holding structure, reminiscent of stone packing crates and display units.
Inhale
The Chinese character for mouth 口 is split in two across the prints on the wall behind, taken in the recently opened InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland. The 18 story luxury resort, also known as Tiana Pit hotel, is built deep inside an ex quarry on the outskirts of Shanghai. The face of the quarry is reflected in the architecture of the hotel. “The quarry becomes part of the hotel and the hotel becomes part of the quarry.” -Chief architect ISHW
Inhale
The Chinese character for mouth 口 is split in two across the prints on the wall behind, taken in the recently opened InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland. The 18 story luxury resort, also known as Tiana Pit hotel, is built deep inside an ex quarry on the outskirts of Shanghai. The face of the quarry is reflected in the architecture of the hotel. “The quarry becomes part of the hotel and the hotel becomes part of the quarry.” -Chief architect ISHW