Snow White Hotel
白雪宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 90cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 150cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
LOVE HOTELS, SCULPTURES AND SPACE By MENG Jin & FANG Er
Love Hotels ordinarily offer two kinds of rates: One is the three-hour ’resting’ rate and the other is the overnight rate. In most cases, Love Hotels are cheaper than other hotels. . . . After entering a Love Hotel, one experiences a transformation in the normal order of things in one’s everyday life. Love Hotel spaces are meant to give one the liberating feeling of having left reality. Many people look to Love Hotels for psychological respite, if not refuge.
Even if the rooms are only simply decorated with cheap furniture and fittings, they still manage to impart a sense of fantasy, imagination and sweetness, each object intimating that here you might find the satisfaction that you’re missing in your everyday life. It’s as if Love Hotels provide an emotional something otherwise missing in the lives of people living in the city. Here in its spaces is the order of things and people as they were intended to be. For these series of collaborative works, we used the objects that belonged to each room as materials. We would then stack and wrap these objects into amorphous agglomerations. Each resulting form was not pre-conceived but generic, in that it was defined only in terms of the materials used in its composition. And yet, in as much as each individual object originated in the space and related to the other objects in the room, each work was also specific to its site. Our intervention was not designed to bring attention to a generic subject (such as Love Hotels per se), but rather to carefully preserve the original elements of the site, to not reduce the site to a generic idea, nor to elevate or privilege the site, but to simply alter the existing order of things within a specific time and space.
The process of taking the photographs was no different or less important than the process of making the sculpture. While it was a process that took less than 5 minutes to set up and less than one second to execute, nonetheless, its importance in the re-ordering of things cannot be over-stated. As a process, it had a dual function in as much as it was undertaken in a specific room in a specific Love Hotel and in a specific three-hour time period after we showed up, it was a process not unlike the process by which we made the sculpture itself. By stacking and wrapping all the objects in the rooms we entered, we had originally sought to destroy the original meaning of the spaces. In the end, perhaps due to the enormity of meaning that informed such places, coupled with the quizzical lack of human presence therein, the found objects took on a life of their own and together an anthropomorphical reconfiguration that make the photographs in this series so nuanced and striking.
爱情宾馆，雕塑与空间
作者 孟瑾 & 方二
爱情宾馆通常提供两种收 费：一种"休息"所收取的利率约3小时，另外一个就是"过夜"的计算，通常时间和计价方式会比一般的旅馆饭店稍微便宜。由于价格低廉，这类空间有时也会吸 引一些因经济条件拮据而以此为家的客人。在拍摄的过程中，我们就曾遇过一住十几年的老房客，落魄的都市边缘客。
秩序的转化是在进入爱情宾 馆之后，这里的空间给人一种脱离现实的解放感，许多人在爱情宾馆中得到了精神上的慰留及庇护。即便是简陋的房间布置，廉价的家具配 备，都透露出梦幻、想象、与甜蜜，每一个简单的物品似乎在暗示这里可以找到日常现实中无法填补的那分满足，似乎也只有爱情宾馆可以填补都市人生活所失落的 那份爱，这样的空间蕴含着物品与人的原始秩序：容纳，样式，颜色，材质，大小，图案，连接，使用......
我们利用每一间房间内所属的 物品作为材料，堆砌捆绑而成一个形态模糊的聚合体。它们的相互呈现，是一种完全物质性的存在，而它们之间的所属关系决定了此地的 现场感。这种干扰现场景观的做法，并不是要突出某一个非现场的主体，而是完全此时此地的现场性的细心发挥，室内场景和室内物品的属性并没有得到改变，原生 的细节得到保留的，现场感没有被压缩，也没有所谓的情感升华，有的只是秩序的变化。与其说是摄影，其工作过程更象是在做物品雕塑。拍摄只是最后的程序，时 间不到5分钟，而按下快门甚至和和还不到一秒。但者最后的一秒意义重大，的对我们而言存在着双重属性：既属于爱情宾馆的那个特定的房间，也只属于我们出现 之后的3个小时。捆绑的方式是在企图打破这类空间的定义。而正因为这个定义的庞大，还有使用者的莫名缺席，使得这些物品各自复活，获得一种拟人化的重塑。
Hotel Sixty Nine
69宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 90cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 150cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Dong Di Shi Hotel
东帝士宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 96cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 160cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
True Love Code Hotel
真爱密码宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 108cm x 90cm – Edition of 8
Size II: 180cm x 150cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Gu Shan Yuan Hotel
古山园宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 108cm x 90cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 180cm x 150cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Zheng An Hotel
正安旅社
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 96cm – Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 160cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Lion City Hotel
狮城宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 102cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 170cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Queen Hotel
皇后宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 108cm x 90cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 180cm x 150cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Butterfly (A Tribute to Michael Jackson)
蝴蝶兰宾馆 (向麦可杰克森致意)
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 96cm – Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 160cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
European Fragrance Hotel
欧香宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 102cm - Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 170cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Gong Bin Hotel
宫宾宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 108cm x 90cm – Edition of 8
Size II: 180cm x 150cm - Edition of 10
C-Print
Cannes Hotel
坎城宾馆
(2008-09)
Size I: 90cm x 96cm – Edition of 8
Size II: 150cm x 160cm - Edition of 10
C-Print