Tianyi is always in either a second-hand shop or on second-hand sale apps where she encounters found objects, images and footage (and she never feels bored). Her love for used/ collected/ found objects originates from, instead of nostalgia, a haunted feeling experienced in the contemporary days as the past has not been shed away while our world keeps moving, or in fact it can never be...
Trash Bin Office
2021 On-site behaviour for 14 days, trash from the shop, installation. Size variable
"You throw a piece away every day, I make a work every day". People bring their unwanted objects here, trying to give them a second chance. Then, the shop makes its own selection: some of the items go to the shelves, the rest to the bin. Trash Bin Office is here to give a third chance to the rejected ones. Through their labour, the artist works with the residue of consumerism and shows the process in one corner of the shop. A trash bin is a place that holds rubbish until it is collected. We want the unwanted! Be our collector today! website