It’s not actually called that, but the lack of spaces in the title of the museum on the Huangpu makes it seem as if it might be. The Shanghai Power Station of Art is a strange place. We arrived in the late afternoon on a chilly November day, and after refusing to leave my bag in a locker we wandered the place and looked at…some art? I suppose?
Here’s a weird gallery of weirdness.
Into the white box which is apparently art
That’s a bed up there.
Downloaded from Not Google, printed and for sale for $1 Million
Wut.
It’s a chair. With a projection of a guy talking about a chair.
Wut.
Wut!
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Image within image within image
Pube balls, suspended in space.
Dead cherub in the entryway.
It is a strange place. Easily the best part of the experience was the rooftop.
2010 Expo Detritus
La Sacra Conversazione, a la Coleen e Russell
The tiny little people in the face of THE CITY
Overall, would maybe recommend. It’s a little bit weird and totally desolate out there, but maybe that’s the point. There was also some great moral mural artwork on the way back to the subway station.
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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