Using gold to relate to the production and value of goods is also a clue to Zheng Guogu's creation, To Oxydize 2,000 Years, Dior, but of different connotations.
He reproduced an installation of 28 bronze perfume bottles in 2008. "They look quite like dumbbells."
"At that time I was interested in the diversity of goods. I would pay a lot of attention to new products in supermarkets," Zheng says, adding that the bottles show the coexistence of the fragility and solidity of a material.