Daily Prosperity - Solo Installation
In this exhibition, artist Chen Hangfeng displays a fantastic chandelier installation created from discards bought from garbage vendors to reveal the intricate layers of our daily lives. Also included in the exhibition are works on paper incorporating renowned global corporate logos reworked into traditional Chinese patterns.
Updated 2 y, 8 m ago
Chen Hangfeng arranges the logos of the world's brands into traditional Chinese patterns with a modern twist. As an ancient woodcarver might have used the bird he observed in his daily life, Chen Hangfeng takes the symbols in our daily view and incorporates them into his art, creating very attractive works from the more normally mundane corporate logos of our times. Working along these lines of appropriation and reapplication, Chen Hangfeng has over some months collected various objects out of garbage collection and redistribution centers around Shanghai. Out of these he has built a glamorous "Chandelier" from discards (which he had to purchase from the garbage vendors - and have been well washed and processed!!), discovering much about the system of garbage reclamation and trade in a city which "produces" 20,000 tons of refuse a day.
Juxtaposing his highly collectible art craft with the disposable nature of most mass production or even luxury goods - in a country renowned for being the world's factory - is not meant to make an ironic comment, but intends to illustrate the complex layers behind the processes in our daily lives and the layers of application of value to an object at various phases of use.

