Part of the Series The Other Side of Mountains, 2025
Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa x Le Lin
2025
CMYK process silk screen print on fabric synthetic white cloth, found chromium plating
Tablecloth: 140cm x 203cm (55” x 80”)
Tablecloth image: 100cm x 60cm (39.4” x 23.6”)
Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa x Le Lin
2025
CMYK process silk screen print on fabric synthetic white cloth, found chromium plating
Tablecloth: 140cm x 203cm (55” x 80”)
Tablecloth image: 100cm x 60cm (39.4” x 23.6”)
On a dining table, glinting chrome plates rest upon a tablecloth imprinted with a chromium resource map of a region near Rangdröl’s paternal lands in Tibet. The shimmering domestic scene gestures towards a difficult history: the map traces landscapes once marked by forced labor camps, where the artist’s grandfather and his brothers endured years of rock-breaking for early mineral extraction projects. The empty plates and unoccupied seat allude to a scene of a missing family. By staging the geography of exploitation as a place of supposed hospitality, the work unsettles rituals of comfort and consumption. Here, the act of “sitting down to dinner” becomes an uneasy invitation to confront the layered legacies of extraction, survival, and inherited memory.
