Yi Xin Tong | Gustavo’s Gas Stove

Gustavo’s Gas Stove
Ammonite shell fossil, fake pearls, gas stove, brass rods, trumpet mouthpiece, vinyl hose, crystal ball, golden beads, inkjet prints on paper and vinyl, video projection, sound, microphone stand, micro suede fabric
Gas Station: The Rubber Trumpet. 11/07/15-30/08/15. Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai

Hangover of murder How to cope with a broken heart, post-sunset Tinted indifferent embroidered story Forget this Thursday, how about tonight? Gold watch, lots of rings, hoop earrings One cut, one kill Life is the accomplice Bruised darlings Elemental essential Icelandic emergency relief botanical Prime, lacquer, gloss Hangover of murder Stash Permanent Pale blue
---------------- In Roy Vickers’s detective fiction The Rubber Trumpet (1934), the male protagonist killed his wife with a gas stove, in the same fashion as using a hammer. Responding to this detail, I made the piece. The murderer and the lethal weapon, which one is more evil? Do naïve objects exist? A person can be inspired by a lethal weapon, which might already contain the latent evil and violence of a murder. The physical boundary between human and object is blurry. Human has long been post-human. Hangover of murder. Ridicule is the premise for romance. The pale blue flame on a gas stove burns quietly like a specter.