YANG Zhenzhong Massage Chairs - Then Edison's Direct Current was surrendered To the Alternating Current 2003 massage chairs| code: yzz43 / id:4581

The installation consists of six massage armchairs whose exteriors have been peeled away and soft fillings removed. Once their power is turned on, these chairs begin to automatically knead and pat like clockwork, producing rhythmic sounds in unison. Personified by the artist as blood and bones, electricity and machinery exemplify modern industrial civilization. The work exhibits the artist’s claim that a universal correlation exists between animate and inanimate objects by placing his emphasis on both living and death. In our daily lives, massage armchairs are appliances that are offer used for relaxation and healthy enjoyment, while in contrast those that make up the installation are suggestive of degeneration, ageing, demise, and the mysterious resurrection of human flesh via their skeleton-like structure and lively needing.

This work was first displayed in September 2003, in the Second Hand Reality exhibition at Beijing’s Today Art Museum.

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Shanghart Taopu
Group Exhibition MadeIn Company  SHAO Yi  SHI Qing  TANG Maohong  XIANG Liqing  YANG Fudong  YANG Zhenzhong  ZHANG Ding  SHEN Fan  etc, ShanghART Taopu, Shanghai

Jan 01, 2010 -Dec 31, 2012