New versions of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ series of furniture.
The work, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer, is a result of their extended stay in China as part of a collaboration with Contrasts Gallery of Shanghai.
This series of work debuted at Design Miami last December.
They describe it as "Seemingly innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Specifically invading antique Chinese furniture, starting to threaten their traditional past."
and as "Revealing a surreal and terrifying landscape of derailed trains, drowning babies, crashing planes and wild dinosaurs."
The most recent additions to the above installation are the following :Limited edition series of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ collection.Each piece is unique, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer.
above: ‘GRR’
above: ‘BOW-WOW’
Above: ‘BOO-HOO’
Above: ‘CLANK’
Who is WOKmedia?
Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner established WOKmedia in 2004.They are based in London with a production studio in Shanghai.Wokmedia’s work is primarily concerned with the emotional dimension, an archetypal memory or a physical sensation. Often they survey a state of in between where chaos is showing structure and confusion is beginning to make sense. Where out of devastation and destruction emerges a new world. A world embedded in their childhood memories when emotions were not expected to be filtered, when make-believe was not equated with lunacy.Julie Mathiasjulie@wokmedia.comWolfgang KaeppnerLondon StudioWOKmedia2 Leswin Place, Unit HQLondon N16 7NJ
Shanghai ProductionWOKmediaRujin Road 500 (South)Shanghai
