Dongbay
 | Dongbay Beijing, China 1995 |
Synth Totem
2024
280 x 250 x 80 cm
Recycled Animal Materials & Mixed Media
Description
This installation constructs a ritual arena where industrial debris and poacher-reclaimed animal hides collide. Skateboard trucks form a spinal column anchoring wolf and sheep pelts—trophies of ecological rupture — while braided copper wires and human hair cascade to the ground, physically binding viewers to the work’s circuitry. Synthetic graphics etched onto hides recontextualize nomadic cosmologies within industrial semiotics. Material tensions — industrial steel versus nomadic hairwork, sacred animal pelts versus consumer waste—mirror our unresolved duality as both architects and victims of the Anthropocene.
