visual culture superstar: song dong.

song dong's recent installation at moma, "waste not" included a meticulous arrangement of every single object in his mother's home, collected over 50 years of obsessive hoarding. the evidence of a life so carefully preserved and carefully composed gives a visual representation to the material culture we live in and treasure. while song dong also artfully addresses additional themes of displacement and survival, the sheer volume of material is impossible to ignore as an indicator of our visual culture.