Yet again, Guo-Qiang is another artist who I am really intrigued by because of the mediums he chooses for his art and installations. I think especially the use of gun powder and how he combines a few mediums together to come up with his bigger picture or final project. I think the project I enjoyed the most was the airplane, known as Bon Voyage: 10,000 Collectibles from the Airport, in Sao Paolo, Brazil. I think his concept for this piece was to display the “dangerous” items that are confiscated on a regular basis at airports around the world. It makes you think that at any moment there could be someone sitting next to you in the terminal or on the plane and have something on them. I also liked the installation Guo-Qiang did in Quebec, Canada called Reflection. It was a sunken ship with thousands of broken pieces of ceramic deities. He said that if the deities had defects them then weren’t considered deities and wouldn’t be worshipped to. I think by him putting them in a sunken ship he is trying to say that they could float to the bottom of the ocean and just be another forgotten piece of history.
