Han Feng: 'Floating City' (2008)

Han Feng used tracing paper (laser print) to create miniature buildings which he then hung with different lengths of fish tackle thread from the ceiling at the Saatchi gallery.

By hanging the buildings inside, he is bringing the exterior into the interior.

'Floating City' installation at the Saatchi Gallery in London

I like the way he has used tracing paper as it makes the buildings delicate and fragile.

I think that this is a really interesting concept. By making the buildings smaller, it is making us bigger than them, which is a reversal of them being greater than us. As we are smaller than buildings in 'real life', we are unable to see what a large amount of our land they cover, but the fact that they are made smaller in this piece could be a way of Feng trying to show how surrounded we are by these imposing man-made towers.

Closer view of piece

I think the underside of the piece is also interesting. For example Feng's choice to leave it empty rather than include the land underneath it could suggest that the buildings are destructing the land and nature beneath it. The shadows created by the buildings could also serve to emphasise this sense of destruction, as it is their shadows that are replacing the land below.