Like a filter, matters passed through you and became a part of you, 2021
Stainless steel, UV print, LED lighting, resin, sink, faucet, barrel, pumping system, pipe, fruit, iodine solution, wooden structure, custom-made sandbag, vinyl flooring, wheat paste solution

 

Luo Jr-shin presented site-specific installation Like a filter, matters passed through you and became a part of you (2021) at The Lewis’s Building. As a continuation of his previous project Like a Urinal in a Nightclub, From Some Golden Liquid Turning into Another (2018), Luo’s set is a nightclub toilet – which is treated as a metaphorical facilitator for material transformation. Like a closed circuit, the installation shifts between a toilet and a nightclub, highlighting the cyclical drinking-urinating behaviour of the human body. Surrogate fluid made from ingredients found in beer coats the floor in the space – a familiar sensation underfoot for clubgoers, which transports the visitor to a certain mood, place or time. Luo’s work also highlights the fluidity of a nightclub toilet in terms of its ambiguity of public and private space, and the exchanging of substance and information – as well as its rigidness in reinforcing binary gender norms.

 

Photography: Rob Battersby
Supported by Ministry of Culture Taiwan (Republic of China)

The Stomach and the Port - Liverpool Biennial 2021, 5.19-6.27.2021

Curated by Manuela Moscoso