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Installation view of "Strangle" by Tong Wenmin. On view in the current exhibition "Scenery & Landscape: Hotel Asia Project," presented in collaboration with Organhaus.
Tong Wenmin
Strangle, 2022
Performance, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
Single-channel video (color, silent)
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Tong Wenmin is a prominent figure among a new generation of Chinese performance artists. Her work often explores the intersection between external environments and individual perception. Strangle (2023), part of her recent project From South to North, is rooted in her stay in a minority village in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province. There, she learned local knowledge about coexisting with wild plants. Using her body as a medium, she visualizes, personifies, and transforms this relationship into poetic allegory. (“Strangling” in this context refers to a survival strategy in tropical rainforests, in which seeds of certain tree species—dispersed by birds or wind—parasitize host trees and eventually overtake them.) 0 reply
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