Following a week-long trip walking the aisles of Yiwu’s gigantic International Trade City, this work-in-progress imagines Yiwu’s status as “world capital of small commodities” as the basis for a new and trending aesthetic: Yiwucore. Yiwucore’s philosophy seeks to make visible the hidden backrooms of the global small commodities trade; the space of the middleman within the flow of goods from factory to home; the backroads of globalization and promised land for the international wholesale buyer of low-end disposable products, destined to be future landfill. Yiwu emerges as an unsuspecting “world city” whose spaces are functional rather than image-based.
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在义乌国际商贸城的巨大走廊中行走了一周后,这件未完成的作品将义乌作为“世界小商品之都”的地位设想为一种新潮流的审美趋势: Yiwucore。
Yiwucore的理念旨在让全球小商品贸易中隐藏的幕后场景可见,包括商品从工厂到家庭流通过程中的中间商的空间;全球化的后路和国际批发买家的低端一次性产品的应许之地,却最终注定成为未来垃圾填埋场。 义乌悄然成为 “世界城市”, 它的空间更多是功能性的,而非形象驱动的。