Things You Can Take Away

Series

2019-2021

These carpets are printed with patterns of floor tiles commonly used in the former old houses that had been demolished during the urban renovation of Hangzhou. The carpets, showing the inside space of these former houses, act as remaining layers and grounds of the past, as well as the process of constant space destruction, renewal and reconstruction in Chinese cities. These images of tiles are the embodiment of the past living experience in a domestic place, their overlapping reminding us of the different times and cultural identities that succeed each other in the urban restoration of the Chinese city, the coexistence and mingling of different notions and ideologies, opening up dialogues between the past and the present.