Rorschach Shopkeeper Works－Ken Lum, Tang Contempary Art, Beijng

Ken Lum: Rorschach Shopkeeper Works is the last of a series of three exhibitions held in Tang Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing. Similar to the preceeding shows Surplus Value (June 2006) and Accumulation (September 2006), this exhibition tries to question the relevance of artistic creation and the value of the individual in Chinese high-speed consumer society, its possibilities to define itself aside from the logic of the market. While 揝urplus Value?looked at the art work in particular in an environment where art is considered a kind of indicator for and factor of social and economical productivity, 揂ccumulation?searched for a space of artistic intervention free from dominant discourses, putting forth the aspects of communication and cooperation as a major potential of artistic creation. In Rorschach Shopkeeper Works, his first solo show in China, Ken Lum now reflects upon the question of identity related to the production of images - signs - in urban society, thus focusing on the constitution of the subject.