Objects of a lifetime, all carefully arranged in MoMA’s mezzanine. Waste Not by Song Dong. (photo by C-M, via C-M) A sprawling installation of the entire contents of his mother’s house, it is a record - in stuff - of his mother’s life and, more significantly, his father’s death. Each object, however trivial, set aside, put away, secured - because, at one moment in time, it had been important.

Objects of a lifetime, all carefully arranged in MoMA’s mezzanine. Waste Not by Song Dong. (photo by C-M, via C-M)

A sprawling installation of the entire contents of his mother’s house, it is a record - in stuff - of his mother’s life and, more significantly, his father’s death. Each object, however trivial, set aside, put away, secured - because, at one moment in time, it had been important.

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