The 14th Factory on Wall Street is the first of a series of socially-engaged art installations created by The 14th Factory Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Hong Kong based British artist Simon Birch.
Tthe project will feature collaborative works by a global community of interdisciplinary artists representing Greater China, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.
With fourteen pieces of large-scale work, The 14th Factory alludes to its historical roots in the “Thirteen Factories” of the Canton region in eighteenth century China, during which designated Western trading quarters formed a culturally and heterogeneous establishment for European and Chinese traders. The imagined Fourteenth Factory, hence, aims to retrace the origin of a factory — a repository of goods at its crossroads of production—and its molding of the future.