New versions of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ series of furniture.
The work, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer, is a result of their extended stay in China as part of a collaboration with Contrasts Gallery of Shanghai.
This series of work debuted at Design Miami last December.
They describe it as "Seemingly innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Specifically invading antique Chinese furniture, starting to threaten their traditional past."
and as "Revealing a surreal and terrifying landscape of derailed trains, drowning babies, crashing planes and wild dinosaurs."
Limited edition series of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ collection.
Each piece is unique, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer.
above: ‘GRR’
above: ‘BOW-WOW’
Above: ‘BOO-HOO’
Above: ‘CLANK’
Who is WOKmedia?
They are based in London with a production studio in Shanghai.
Wokmedia’s work is primarily concerned with the emotional dimension, an archetypal memory or a physical sensation. Often they survey a state of in between where chaos is showing structure and confusion is beginning to make sense. Where out of devastation and destruction emerges a new world. A world embedded in their childhood memories when emotions were not expected to be filtered, when make-believe was not equated with lunacy.
Julie Mathias
julie@wokmedia.com
Wolfgang Kaeppner
wok@wokmedia.com
London Studio
WOKmedia
2 Leswin Place, Unit HQ
London N16 7NJ
Shanghai Production
WOKmedia
Rujin Road 500 (South)
Shanghai
