© Hong Hao
Currently not on view
My Things No. 5 – 5000 Pieces of Rubbish in 2002,
2002
Hong Hao, born 1965, Beijing, China; active Beijing
2018-90
Part of a long-running series entitled My Things, this photograph includes every item Hao used and discarded in 2002. After making a scan of each object, he stitched the files together into a single image that draws upon the artistic tradition of the still life, in which inanimate objects were arranged to create an aesthetic arrangement of shapes, colors, and textures that often represented an allegorical meaning or moral. Although from a distance Hao’s photograph appears to be a pleasing geometric composition, it is actually a document of the vast and ever-accruing impact of consumer culture depicted through an assemblage of the detritus produced by a single individual.
Information
Title
My Things No. 5 – 5000 Pieces of Rubbish in 2002
Dates
2002
Maker
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 55.9 × 97.8 cm (22 × 38 1/2 in.)
sheet: 59.8 × 101.8 cm (23 9/16 × 40 1/16 in.)
frame: 58.4 × 100.3 × 3.8 cm (23 × 39 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, and anonymous gift
Object Number
2018-90
Place Made
Asia, China, Beijing
Signatures
Signed in graphite on verso: Hong Hao
Inscription
Inscribed on verso in graphite: Titled My Things No. 5- 5000 Pieces of Rubbish in 2002 | dated 2002 | editioned 11/15 | [signature]
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