Birth Ceremony, 2013

出生礼

site-specific installation

white cloth, brown mirror glass (found), candle, steel nails, bricks (found)
dimensions variable

It is the suona horn to be blown on a funeral; it is fire and wind, on a birth ceremony.
All entrances and exits of this to-be-demolished building are still there (doorframes and window frames), yet the boundary between inside and outside (doors and windows) are gone. The wind / draught could travel through the building without any impediments.

在葬礼上是唢呐被吹响；在出生礼上，是火和风。
即将被推土机推掉的这栋楼，它的所有入口和出口还在（门和窗），但已经没有了内外的界限（门和窗）。风可以毫无阻碍地穿过它。

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Unfinished Book | Pan Li × Gao Yuan
Space Regeneration Project: Jianshan Project #3
24 Aug 2013 - when the building was demolished
No. 5 Shengli Building, Hong Guang Li, Hexi District, Tianjin