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Love Hotel

Exhibition: 5 Sep 2009 – 31 Oct 2009

Love Hotel
MENG JIN + FANG ER: "European Fragrance Hotel" (2008-09) , C-Print. 90cm x 102cm, Edition of 8; 150cm x 170cm, Edition of 10., © MENG Jin + FANG Er. Courtesy of m97 Gallery.

Meng Jin + Fang Er: "Love Hotel"

Partners Meng Jin and Fang Er's first collaborative photography project, Love Hotel explores the two artists' ongoing interest in urban life, architecture, memory and found objects, and the inter-relationship between physical buildings, objects and their social context. The couple worked on-site within the framework of 3-hour 'rest' periods in various 'short-stay' hotels creating improvised, spontaneous sculpture works with the existing objects found in the rented love hotel rooms. Slightly amorphous structures, the rearranged inanimate objects hint at entangled anthropomorphic creations in this fantasy space devoid of actual human presence.

Meng Jin & Fang Er live and work in Beijing, China.

Works

  • MENG JIN + FANG ER: "Hotel 69" (2008-09) , C-Print. 90cm x 90cm, Edition of 8; 150cm x 150cm, Edition of 10., © MENG Jin + FANG Er. Courtesy of m97 Gallery.
  • MENG JIN + FANG ER: "European Fragrance Hotel" (2008-09) , C-Print. 90cm x 102cm, Edition of 8; 150cm x 170cm, Edition of 10., © MENG Jin + FANG Er. Courtesy of m97 Gallery.