The photograph depicts laundry hanging from an informal, self-built dwelling in Shanghai. Clothes and household items are draped across the weathered tiled roof and exterior walls, revealing the ways residents adapted limited domestic space to everyday needs. The dense arrangement of laundry, aged architecture, and improvised structures reflects the lived conditions of Shanghai’s traditional neighbourhoods before urban redevelopment. Rendered in black and white, the photograph emphasises the textures and details of the ageing built environment.
Hanging Laundry
Year of execution: 2008
Year of acquisition: 2024
Medium: Photographic prints
Dimension: 39 x 28.5 cm
Gift of the artist
Artist(s)
Tung Yue Nang 邓汝能
