2006-United Paper,Iowa

2006-United Paper, University of Iowa Museum of Art

聯合紙業, 愛荷華大學美術館

A new site-specific sculpture installation by the Taiwanese artist E Chen, will become part of the permanent collection of the University of Iowa Museum of Art and will be previewed in a special display on Conceptual Art and Consumerism in the sculpture court of the museum. Chen’s installation will be built from mass-produced objects that inhabit our daily lives such as televisions, shoes, computers, diapers, toothpaste, etc., still in their original retail packaging. Specific parts of each container will have areas cut out like windows, or opened up with flaps. These apertures will reveal abstracted views of the products or packing materials within. A box with a coffee cup inside perhaps would have a flap cut out so that the handle of the cup would extend outside of the confines of the container, or a box containing a coffee maker would be adapted so that the appliance could be used. The packages will fit together like the bricks of a house to create a vision of a new type consumer architectural world.(UIMA Spring 2006)