In The Bedroom, Musquiqui Chihying sought out old workers who once worked on the production lines, interviewing them about their former lives in the factories and their places of leisure after leaving the factories. The artist places special emphasis on imagery of sleep and the surrounding environment; during this process, the artist makes casual sketches of beds’ structures, nearby furnishings and decorations, dreams remembered, and so on. With these sketches as prototypes, Musquiqui Chihying has constructed a massive bed on the same scale as the streetlights at the entrance of the Power Station of Art - a museum that had been renovated from the former Nanshi Power Plant. Such exaggerations revolving around the bed and the workers’ memories present a bizarre and amusing proclamation, implying that the vestiges of memory and history are but dreams, mere recollections upon waking.
[Text from the catalog of 10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory]
Still image during the interview with Ms. Wang in her bedroom in Shanghai,
2014 © Musquiqui Chihying
The drawing from Ms. Wang of her memory, 2014 © Musquiqui Chihying
