
Worldwide Trash (Thanks for Nothing Hegel)
A sprawling accumulation of discarded materials and detritus cascades and drifts across the gallery floor and walls, evoking both the relentless flow of global waste and the entropy of modern civilization. Chan's work conjures a poetic tension between destruction and transcendence, invoking the philosopher Hegel's dialectical thinking only to playfully undermine it with the blunt, irreverent reality of trash. The piece meditates on what societies discard and what endures, suggesting that history's grand narratives may ultimately resolve into nothing more than refuse.
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April 24, 2018
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