Scenery Supplier series

2024-NOW

Variable Size
UV Printing on PVC Foam Board

Scenery Supplier series examines packaging boxes as more than containers: they function as surfaces through which commodities, images, and ideas are designed, labelled, and circulated. By compressing elements from the artist’s other works onto these boxes, the series transforms them into portable conceptual forms that can be transported, stacked, and reconfigured.

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The Scenery Supplier series approaches packaging boxes and shopping boxes as composite forms that operate simultaneously as commodity containers, logistical interfaces, and informational surfaces. The “scenery” in the series does not refer to a natural landscape, but to a perceptual environment jointly produced by consumer systems, technological narratives, brand language, and mechanisms of display. The “supplier,” meanwhile, points to the underlying logic through which such scenery is produced: it is designed, labelled, packaged, and introduced into circulation in standardized form. Trademarks, warning labels, promotional slogans, and fragments of imagery printed across the boxes continually imply the presence of certain contents; yet the packaging has already displaced what it supposedly contains, becoming a material interface through which commodities, artworks, and their modes of circulation are constituted.

Drawing on the concept of “immutable mobiles,” according to which complex objects can enter broader systems of circulation and organization only after being transformed into portable, legible, and combinable forms, “compression” in the *Scenery Supplier* series signifies both flattening and condensation. The artist flattens the spatial, material, temporal, and narrative layers of his other works onto the surfaces of the boxes, while condensing their figures, images, slogans, and central ideas into a finite field of visual information. Detached from their original media and scales, these works are placed on the same plane as commodity labels, logistical symbols, and brand language. The boxes are neither archives nor miniaturized replicas of the original works; rather, they are conceptual condensations produced through a process of recoding, allowing the works to be transported, stacked, and unfolded anew within different configurations.