
House, Pencil and oil on wood, 15.6×9.8 cm, 2004
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I want to try to build such a “stage”, where all the individual performers have multiple aspects, including the visible and the invisible, the real and the hypothetical. These bodies are at the same time physical proofs of the real world and symbols that connect all kinds of desires. They are signs of a certain period of history but also void of any specific historical meaning.
Do they exist between imagination and ambiguity? They maintain a relative synchronization within different orders; they are introspective presences in public space; they share the same space but ignore each other. This is a stage filled with normality and abnormality. It is my experiment with video, and my understanding of the world that I live in.
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将一台超级 8 毫米摄影机放置在冰箱最里端的角落里,镜头朝向冰箱门,开启摄录键,将摄影机处在自动录影的状态下,关上冰箱门。再打开冰箱门,随意的拿取一件东西;关上冰箱门。再次打开冰箱门随意的放置一件东西;关上冰箱门。反反复复重复这组动作。冰箱门打开时冰箱的照明灯被开启,录影机自动记录下有光照状态下的影像,冰箱门关闭时,录影机则记录下没有图像的图像。作品既是在这两种交替的状态下将时间延续着。将声音部分主动的去除,是强调图像本身存在的主观性。
Questions such as Abstract and Realistic, Realism and Classicism have always been part of the problem of self-presupposition in the Chinese art industry, and now this presupposition seems to bring us to a kind of thorny land. No matter it is our self-expression or the imagination of “the other”, this splitting and ambiguous face has become a new spokesperson. In the Cilm, I convinced the photographer who often works with me to play the roles of model and makeup artist together.
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