DAI SHENGJIE 戴圣杰

DAI Shengjie
Lunch on Treasure Island, 2023
Mixed media installation
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Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2023 Award exhibition:
“Metamorphic Ecosphere” commissioned work
现代汽车文化中心获奖展览委任作品

装置作品《金银岛午餐》中，艺术家将工业化进程里废旧的电子产品、汽车零部件和艺术展览中“无法消化”的废料喻为食物在人类身体环境中新陈代谢的循环，揭示它们从生产中心转移到“世界的阴影地带”后降解为基本元素再重新结合的过程。作品使用的所有材料均来自于艺术家戴圣杰在数年内陆续观察并收集到的来自艺术展览、汽车零件集散地、电子垃圾处理小镇和日常生活场景的废旧材料，试图引发观者对资源循环、生态保护和全球化影响的反思。艺术家通过对多个废料集散地经济劳动、社区生活、基础设施的田野考察，探索当物品的使用价值耗尽后的“媒介来世”：它们将去往何方，创造怎样的环境负担和新价值，构建怎样的新人类社群和文化。

The commissioned site-specific installation “Lunch on Treasure Island” metaphorically represents electronic waste, automobile components, and the “undigested” waste from  the process of global industrialization as the circulation of food within the human environmental context. It reveals the process through which these elements move from production centers to the “shadows of the world,” where they degrade into basic elements and then recombine. All the materials used in the artwork were collected by the artist over several years from observation and collection at the art exhibition waste warehouse, automotive parts collection sites, electronic waste processing towns, and everyday life scenarios. The work aims to provoke introspection among viewers regarding resource circulation, ecological conservation, and the impacts of globalization. By examining large-scale economic labor, infrastructure configuration, and spatial planning at multiple waste collection sites, the artist attempts to showcase the “afterlife of media” closely tied to labor and community livelihoods.

@Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing