To Add One Meter to an Unknown Mountain
To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond was a work in a similar vein conceived and directed by Zhang Huan. Approximately forty migrant laborers, all males ranging in age from 4 to 60, naked to the waist, walked into a Beijing fish pond together in order to raise the water line through their shared body mass. While raising the water level this group of peasants also raise awareness of, and give voice to their unnoticed community of itinerant workers.
Artwork Details
- Title: To Add One Meter to an Unknown Mountain
- Artist: Zhang Huan (Chinese, born Anyang, 1965)
- Date: 1995
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Image: 101.6 x 152.4 cm (40 x 60 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.302.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Zhang Huan Studio
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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