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M+, Hong Kong, © Chun Kaifeng
Chun Kaifeng 曾凱豐
Nothing to Wait for 無所等待
2013
Chun’s sculptures emerge from close inspection of the everyday fixtures and elements of Singapore’s urban environment. After taking note of the light curvature in the orange plastic seats commonly found at the city’s bus stops, the artist produced exact copies and joined five of them together end to end to form a perfect circle. Placed vertically on the wall, the bus-stop seats lose their functional role as outdoor seating to become an object that can be appreciated for its formal and geometric qualities and for its subtleties of colour, surface, and texture. Chun’s gesture hints at industrially produced minimalist sculpture with repeated generic shapes or forms, but it is resolutely tied to the specificity of Singapore’s social environment and to the tedium of everyday life, as reflected in the humorous title Nothing to Wait For.
In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections. M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 22 June–30 September 2018
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