I Made a Boat in Prison - A Journey to the Shore, 2015
Isaac Chong Wai
JVA Weimar, a former prison in Weimar in Germany
Wire fence, Metal
300cm x 100cm x 250cm

I Made a Boat in Prison–A Journey to the Shore is based on Isaac Chong Wai’s prior and eponymous project that took place in JVA Weimar, a former prison for the juvenile in Germany in 2015. Influenced by the high and heavy fence circumscribing the prison garden, Chong cuts pieces out of this bordering material through which we can see but are unable to reach. The boat structure made out of this original fence, suggests a plan or a dream for an escape, maybe in a flying boat, not only from the context of a prison but also from the conflicted political setting in the contemporary world.