Group Show, Mean time to failure, l’Espace Le Carré, Lille France, April 12 - June 16 2024

Friday, April 12 - Sunday, June 16, 2024

30 Rue des Archives, 59800 Lille France

Wednesday to Saturday: 2 pm - 7 pm

Sunday: 10 am - 1 pm / 3 pm - 6 pm

More information: https://www.lille.fr/Nos-equipements/Espace-Le-Carre

Yao Qingmei

The burrow - Monitor & Control

2021, Video, 22’13”

This video depicts a female security guard intimately connected to the security machines, situated in an underground surveillance room of a gated middle-class community in China. In this hidden digital prison, the controller perceives the outside world's time, nature, and weather through LCD screens and cameras. The natural objects in front of the cameras—a few growing willow branches, and vibrating leaves—playfully enter the dull image frame and obscure the cameras....

More information: https://www.yaoqingmei.com/the-burrow-whole-project