Michiko Yao Artist · Los Angeles

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Alpine Plaza (Chinatown)

Untitled (Hem) installed inside a working Chinatown shopping plaza.

Site-specific installation at the Alpine Plaza in Chinatown, Los Angeles: a shop interior with green neon window trim and a wall of layered hem fabric in the background
Alpine Plaza (Chinatown), 2004. Site-specific installation.

About this work

In November 2004 the hem installation moved out of the gallery and into the Alpine Plaza shopping centre in Chinatown, Los Angeles — a storefront, its green neon window trim and its plastic chairs becoming part of the work.

Site-specific installation, Alpine Plaza (Chinatown), 211 Alpine St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. 6–27 November 2004; reception Saturday 6 November, 7–10 pm.

A lone figure standing in the lit interior of the Alpine Plaza arcade in Chinatown, Los Angeles
The plaza arcade — the installation's second home.

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