| ABOUT |
 |
|
|
Shanghai is known to be a bargain-hunter’s paradise. In the grimy industrial blocks of the clothing markets on Qipu Lu (七浦路), locals, tourists, and shop-owners push through milling throngs of people darting from shop to similar-shop in search of the best cheaply-made blouse to spend 20 RMB on. In two months, seams will come apart; hems will unravel; sleeves will fray, and it’s back to the markets to get the next piece of clothing. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of consumption, fuelled by human greed and poor workmanship. Objectum, a sister piece to Forgotten Form, ponders the bizarre phenomenon of the allure cheap apparel has for thousands of women (and men). We worship before the altar of badly-made clothes, and like the flitting butterflies caged within the looming god of a dressmaker’s dummy, we are captured by our own irrationality and stinginess. [Loo Ching Ling 吕晶琳] |
