After seeing Cornelia Parker’s exhibition, I think she has a unique perspective on existing objects. She is very good at preserving fleeting objects in a special way and exploring the meaning of them to map human society.

At the same time, she is also very good at documenting non-physical objects in other ways, such as music. In her work “Negatives of Sound”, she preserves the black residue left by the grooves cut by the recording engineer when making a vinyl record.

In the process of making music, these remnants are scraps that are discarded in order for the music to be born. Even though music brings pleasure and is considered a positive thing by the general public, the existence of these remnants just proves the negative side of music. But on the other hand, music is a fleeting thing, and Cornelia parker was able to think of using vinyl as a medium to keep it alive. It seems to me a clever way to freeze time and let people understand music from a different perspective and form.

Like another work of hers that I really like, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, she restores the moment of explosion into a huge installation, supplemented by light. The whole installation consists of a light bulb in the middle, scattered explosives and a combination of light and shadow on the white wall, which looks very spectacular.

I noticed that the whole pavilion was designed in a very open-ended manner. There are nine small spaces in total, arranged to be sized apart according to the visitor’s order of viewing the exhibition. And there is a difference between light and dark in the space, which can keep visitors awake and fresh at all times.