In the end, I am not pointing to one country that treats animals badly.
China enlarges what already exists everywhere else,
placing the uncomfortable parts in front of you — raw and unfiltered.
Tony wants cheaper pets. Taylor wants more clothes.
Kitty wants fresher fish. Wang Wang wants it all
It's not just pet shipping. Behind every choice,
there's probably a brutal truth.
"Out of sight, out of mind" is not just a personal laziness,
it is a carefully maintained structural condition.
Breaking through it requires an active movement
in the opposite direction:
to see the parts the system has folded away,
and to restore what is hidden inside the box to its real weight.
Materials
Wood, cardboard, and packaging salvaged from real deliveries. Two crates repurposed as screens for looping transit footage. An iPad as live monitor. Product images sourced from Chinese e-commerce platforms, shown with their translations, printed on polyester paper.
A custom-built crate bench conceals a compartment where the artist lies during the performance, breathing through a small hole that also lets in the smell of grass. A surveillance camera inside streams to a monitor beside the transit footage.
Size
Box Tower: 3 m (h) × 0.9 m (w) × 0.7 m (d)
Living Bench: 1.6 m (l) × 0.7 m (w) × 0.6 m (h)
Crate Screen: 2.8 m (w) × 1.6 m (h) × 0.3 m (d)
Overall installation dimensions are extendable, depending on the exhibition space.