Forgery, I hope it will be an artistic method I use to protect something, something vanishing.
It’s “QiLou”, the traditional Cantonese architecture with a long last history of the Lingnan Culture in south China. Why do I forge these old building? They are vanishing in the modernization of the city, removed by the government, in order to give space for the modern skyscrapers. But everyone knows that, they are the precious cultural legacy of our own, with memory of older and younger generations.
I will go and visit the old building, make a real size forgery, and then auction it, not really for profit, but as a part of an art project, the call the attention and protection of our traditional culture.
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