Tong Liu

These pieces are based on objects that are consumed or used in daily life: hamburgers presented in forms, cans interpreted, McDonald’s napkins submerged in issues, non-functional clocks spinning ineffectively, messages constantly compressed. In the process of transforming and changing objects, symbols are either established, stripped, or confused, thus affecting the cognitive, conception of objects, no matter how firmly and clearly they previously existed in vision, in experience, in function, in imagination, in common recognition. The objects are unfamiliarized and at the same time are better viewed, rethought about in which system they should be repositioned and as what kind of objects they should be tasted.