Whatever I Like, installation view, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, stencilling detail, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, stencilling detail, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, stencilling detail, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, detail, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, detail, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, stencils, wall-text painting, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, found stencilled license inspiration, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, found stencilled lettering inspiration, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, technician in Simple Living t-shirt with installation, wall-text installation, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, installation detail with reader, wall-text installation, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, installation detail with open book, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, installation detail with artist books, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, artist book for sale at Timezone Books, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, card used by artist for project on streets of Beijing, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like, t-shirt that became source for title of project, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007.
Whatever I Like Beijing (2007)
For the installation, Whatever I Like (Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, 2007), I compiled photos of people wearing English-language message t-shirts in Beijing. I transposed a sampling of messages to fill a gallery wall, designing the stenciled wall texts to resemble propaganda message-painting, echoing the once ubiquitous propaganda wall paintings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s. Copies of the accompanying artist book were placed on a traditional Chinese table which was integrated with the installation. A selection of 82 of the source t-shirts were included in the accompanying small-format book along with a list of all the t-shirt texts and writing to contextualize the work. For book purchase contact Art Metropole.