Workshop, Video + installation;
Dual channel video, HD, color, sound, 17’02”；mushroom dishes, cutlery, etc；
Pink Mushroom Banquet
This work sheds light on a unique community of migrant workers in Shenzhen. Near a large talent market that supplies labor to electronics factories, a group of disillusioned youth linger on the fringes. They gather in park corners, choosing to sleep in grassy patches among wild mushrooms rather than enter factory life. The artist invited these individuals to collaborate in cultivating pink mushrooms at Longhua Park, nurturing them to maturity, then harvesting the fungi to create a communal meal.
The artwork constructs a banquet scene centered around pink mushroom dishes. A long table adorned with tableware, wine glasses, and candles is flanked by high-backed chairs. Across from the dining area, projections document the mushroom-growing process alongside the youths’ living conditions and personal narratives.
The artist reflects: “These flesh-toned mushrooms crystallize fragments of these young lives. By harvesting them for an elegant feast, we invite others to consume not just the mushrooms, but also the act of witnessing. As guests chew, they taste the proximity of a marginalized yet intimately present community, while confronting their own fragile, mushroom-like existence in modern society.