"The artist Song Dong, one of the most inventive figures in contemporary Chinese art, has turned the contents of his mother's former home in Beijing, which was also his childhood home, into the installation titled "Waste Not." Mr. Song's mother, Zhao Xiangyua, was born in China in 1938 and died in Beijing in January. For nearly 60 years she lived in the city with her husband and two children in a tiny house crammed with domestic odds and ends — clothes, books, kitchen utensils, toiletries, school supplies, shopping bags, rice bowls, dolls — which were used, then recycled, then indiscriminately hoarded. Now the entire cache, every odd button and ballpoint pen, is in the Museum of Modern Art's multi-story atrium, along with Ms. Zhao's fridge and bed." - NY Times To read more about this story go to http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/14/arts/20090714_SONG_SLIDESHOW_index.html
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