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  • Specimens
  • cigarettes, toughened glass, fiberglass, stainless steel
  • L:400cm/W:60cm/H:220cm
  • 01 March 2007

Context

The transparent glass shown is installed inside the nearly 500,000 cigarettes. On the black pedestal there are many smoked cigarettes, they butts in the visual given this very deep meaning. In this regard, Wenqin said:“This is a tangible and intangible isolation: perfect physical shape -- cigarette, was in shackles box; invisible ruthless killer -- smoke (things from burning cigarettes), here with smoked cigarettes to the performance. All the cigarette in the box, because of the time, tobacco was changing: Damp, moldy, and blackening, has a qualitative change, in turn, the question mark for the issues of cigarettes and human life. Facing these harmful substances, what attitude we are holding? ”


Visible perfect carriage 

Invisible heartless murderer 

The life, in the smog which winds around disappears... ... 

Hopes 

So "specimen" 

The end becomes the memory the butt