Liu Wei - Contemporary Artists

Love It! Bite It!

Love It! Bite It! The Saatchi Gallery
 

Liu Wei

Love It! Bite It!

2005
edible dog chews

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This parody of grotesque consumption re-emerges with Liu's Love It! Bite It! – a model plan of a city made entirely from dog chews. Comically editing down the world to only the 'tastiest' bits, Liu’s utopian vision re-engineers the breadth of Western history - from the Coliseum to the Guggenheim - as a carnivorous spectacle. Constructed with painstaking detail, ornate columns, cornices, and magnificent domes tower with warped approximation giving the scene a post-apocalyptic aura, rendering cultural heritage and power as an abject skeletal (or rawhide as the case may be) remain.
 
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