Peace Hotel 和平飯店

Peace Hotel, 2015
Transparent adhesive collage on glass from Google images on Chinese social and political affairs, towel, pillow, acrylic suitcase, clock, belongings, carpet
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Over million, thousand million dollars, our precious boxes, will become a square-like mountain while stacked. It possesses various modernizations to receive global information, no matter news of entertainment or misery.

Civilization almost cannot trust or accept, all the sudden, which a panic appears after collapse or devastation of construction. Bustling scenes nowadays, seem always calm and secure. Then, urban people occasionally leave home, like living few days in Shanghai Peace Hotel where different world’s leaders have once visited, dined or lived.

Internet and images from media provided in hotel rooms are extension of home of every individual to look at the world by similar methods at parallel distance, though part of information is expected to be hidden. Will Keen eyes and sensitivity be weakened in bedrooms? Before checking in, we should all know that atmosphere of peaceful hotels is inconsistent with political situations and social reality compared with the outside.

Let whitewash for peace and prosperity, turning all sorts of taboos into exquisite pictures.


過百萬元,上千萬元的盒子,堆疊起來是一座方形矮山,居住在裡頭,是一個個都市的現代化,隨時可接收全球資訊,看盡娛樂與苦難的消息。

文明幾乎難再相信或接受,一切,突如其來的,建設崩潰後的慌亂。繁華的景象,看來總是安逸而牢固的。然後城市人又偶爾出走,譬如到上海的和平飯店住上幾天,這個各國領導及古今中外風雲人物亦曾到訪、就餐或入住的地方。

套房內的網路和媒體影像,似是延續了觀看世界的方法及距離,卻又遮蓋了部分本該可觸及的資訊。尖銳與敏感在寢室中會被削弱嗎?縱然到訪前早早知道,和平的飯店內跟在外的政治局勢、社會現況等沒有一致的氛圍。

給太平盛世塗脂抹粉吧,把種種禁區化為美好的圖畫。