GAOLOU (HIGH-RISE)

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2003
styrofoam landscape, scale model houses, scale model railtrack

A scale model landscape of a village with a text on the wall with adhesive vinyl. The landscape is made of styrofoam with german scale models (size H0). Three small houses (standard scale model) and one high-rise made of the same parts as the small houses. A text describing how the former ‘beautiful’ view is now obstructed by the high-rise.

Gaolou is part of a series of scale model landscapes:
Qilai! Qilai! Qilai! (Arise! Arise! Arise!)
> Yanhuo (Firework)

Exhibition view: Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna 2003