I WANT TO SLEEP MORE BUT BY YOUR SIDE
Shuang Li

The Berlin and Geneva-based artist focuses on a single commodity and its imagery—the yellow vests, produced in Yiwu, China, while reflecting on the object as it circulates around the world, then emerging as a symbol of a social movement in France. Following a fictional narrative of an online relationship between a French mother and a young Chinese factory worker at one of these high-visibility vest factories, the work aims to discuss digital relationships and desires, as well as the interdependence between the digital landscape and the physical infrastructure and logistics systems that support it—but, more importantly, the cracks in between.

Commissioned by Times Museum, Guangzhou