Christina Shmigel
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Texts
- Heavy Load, wire bicycle made for tourist trade, plastic string, 90 x 56 x 132 cm, 2011
- Hat for Sustained Attention (Remember Impermanence), calligrapher’s felt, wire, glass, cicada , 26 x 75 x 23 cm , 2012
- Hats for the Contemporary Literati Hat for Cutting Thru Delusion (True/False), calligrapher’s felt, wire and glass, 63 x 15 x 12cm, 2012
- The View in Fragments, mixed media installation, paper, vitrines, cardboard, dimensions variable, 2009-2010
Exhibitions
- Make Over January 24th, 2009 - March 13th, 2009
The View in Fragments, mixed media installation, paper, vitrines, cardboard, dimensions variable, 2009-2010
Preserved in glass vitrines, are small models inspired by the Shanghai architecture that no one stops to admire: white tiled buildings with blue glass windows, kiosks selling auspicious phone numbers, pre-fab buildings for migrant workers, temporary striped polyethylene tarp structures, teetering rooftop pigeon coops…what is most uncelebrated is presented to the viewer as if it were precious. Re-entering the city from the exhibition, that same viewer will perhaps notice those structures for the first time, “made over” by the imagination.
