Ping Pong Shop
乒乓超市
Type: Installation
Year: 2017
Size: 10 x 10 x 15 feet
乒乓超市
Type: Installation
Year: 2017
Size: 10 x 10 x 15 feet
I use materials such as industrial products, wood, and vinyl to create installations that explore the boundaries between mass-produced goods and graphic design, particularly within the context of China’s expanding consumer culture. These two realms are closely intertwined, and as industrialization accelerates, homogenized graphic design increasingly pervades our lives. But do we truly need these seemingly functional objects and designs? What impact do they have on both our material and spiritual worlds, as well as on the planet’s ecology? My work does not begin with utilitarian design; instead, it seeks to establish a poetic connection with the viewer, encouraging a reexamination, reflection, and critique of everyday objects and mass-produced design.
The conceptual installation Ping Pong Shop reimagines the ubiquitous retail store, using ping pong balls as a symbol of mass production and the standardization of graphic design. The work questions the meaning behind mass-produced goods and their relationship with homogeneous design (advertisements) and real human experiences.
This installation was featured in the 2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and displayed at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
Photography: Paul-David Rearick and Qingyu Wu
Material: Vinyl, Pine Woods, Steel, Ping Pong Balls, Acrylic
The conceptual installation Ping Pong Shop reimagines the ubiquitous retail store, using ping pong balls as a symbol of mass production and the standardization of graphic design. The work questions the meaning behind mass-produced goods and their relationship with homogeneous design (advertisements) and real human experiences.
This installation was featured in the 2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and displayed at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
Photography: Paul-David Rearick and Qingyu Wu
Material: Vinyl, Pine Woods, Steel, Ping Pong Balls, Acrylic