jiegòu
2023
Steel hooks, images of Christian missionary hospitals printed on 16gsm tissue paper.
2023
Steel hooks, images of Christian missionary hospitals printed on 16gsm tissue paper.



A bare (im)materialisation of colonial accumulation via infrastructure, consisting of images of hospitals established by Christian missionary societies (mostly British or American) throughout China. Photographs of the hospitals were disseminated in medical periodicals. The title, written in pinyin, leaves the meaning ambiguous, oscillating between 结构 (structure) and 解构 (deconstruction).
In order to view all of the images, viewers must flip through the pages themselves.
In order to view all of the images, viewers must flip through the pages themselves.