Memorigin Collaborates with Contemporary Chinese Artist Song Yang to Present the Bad Girl Tourbillon

Memorigin unveils a special collaboration with contemporary Chinese artist Song Yang, introducing the Bad Girl Tourbillon, a timepiece inspired by Song’s iconic Bad Girl series. First created in 2007, the series has evolved across oil paintings, sculptures, prints, and art toys over the past 19 years. Through its bold visual language, Bad Girl captures the layered emotional landscape of modern youth, now reimagined through the precision and artistry of haute horlogerie.

The design of the Bad Girl Tourbillon is both distinctive and conceptually rich. Positioned at 12 o’clock, the Bad Girl motif is adapted from Song Yang’s original artwork, serving as a symbolic reflection on the irreversibility of life. In the painting, the Bad Girl appears suspended within a counter-flow of time, gazing back at her own past. She is simultaneously an observer and a participant — revisiting the paths she once walked and contemplating the meaning behind her lived experiences. It conveys a profound sentiment: even in the face of time that cannot be reversed, one can still look back, reinterpret, and rediscover the self.

While the Bad Girl series explores the passage of time and the introspection it invites, the tourbillon represents the watchmaker’s pursuit of mastering time through mechanical innovation. Merging these two perspectives forms a compelling dialogue between art and horology — revealing that watchmaking is not merely a showcase of technical prowess, but also a medium of emotional expression and philosophical depth.