Installation
Space
The 2nd 2A project of GAFA Art Museum
Spatial Installation
Spatial Installation
Duration: 2025/08
Location: 2A, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Changgang Campus)
On “Temporariness” as an Opportunity
At the invitation of He Xiaote from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, we constructed a public space in the Grand Hall to complement the academic season. From the initial invitation through material selection to completion, the process took one week. For us, this was not a “spatial design service” in the traditional sense, but rather an on-site response driven by the team’s “intuition”—one rooted in the everyday, the improvisational, and the concrete act of labor.
Engaging with the Landscape
Through the “Body” We used rustic Finnish pine to construct a site featuring ladders, platforms, and a loft. The space is not merely for display but also to accommodate the body. We mounted Huang Xinbo’s 1943 woodcut works on the staircase. When you climb the stairs, holding onto the railing and looking out, your physical posture creates an intertextual relationship with the images from history. Here, viewing is not static; it is something one can climb and lean upon.
Details of Embodiment:
Throughout the construction process, we emphasize the ability to “embody” our craft. As team member Wang Chao puts it: a screw must not only be tightened, but also “tightened properly”—ensuring it fits perfectly into the wood without leaving a single scratch on the surface. In today’s overly conceptualized modern world, we seek to uncover the reality hidden behind the scenery through these concrete acts of cutting, sanding, and assembling.
(Text excerpted from the WeChat official account “Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum”)
Team: Chen Zhuzi, Wang Chao, Zhuang Jiwang, Ju Shuo, Su Kaiyin, Yu Jiahui, Ji Yinan
Special Thanks: Liu Rukui, Zheng Awen
Photography: Ji Yinan
Location: 2A, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Changgang Campus)
On “Temporariness” as an Opportunity
At the invitation of He Xiaote from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, we constructed a public space in the Grand Hall to complement the academic season. From the initial invitation through material selection to completion, the process took one week. For us, this was not a “spatial design service” in the traditional sense, but rather an on-site response driven by the team’s “intuition”—one rooted in the everyday, the improvisational, and the concrete act of labor.
Engaging with the Landscape
Through the “Body” We used rustic Finnish pine to construct a site featuring ladders, platforms, and a loft. The space is not merely for display but also to accommodate the body. We mounted Huang Xinbo’s 1943 woodcut works on the staircase. When you climb the stairs, holding onto the railing and looking out, your physical posture creates an intertextual relationship with the images from history. Here, viewing is not static; it is something one can climb and lean upon.
Details of Embodiment:
Throughout the construction process, we emphasize the ability to “embody” our craft. As team member Wang Chao puts it: a screw must not only be tightened, but also “tightened properly”—ensuring it fits perfectly into the wood without leaving a single scratch on the surface. In today’s overly conceptualized modern world, we seek to uncover the reality hidden behind the scenery through these concrete acts of cutting, sanding, and assembling.
(Text excerpted from the WeChat official account “Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum”)
Team: Chen Zhuzi, Wang Chao, Zhuang Jiwang, Ju Shuo, Su Kaiyin, Yu Jiahui, Ji Yinan
Special Thanks: Liu Rukui, Zheng Awen
Photography: Ji Yinan
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