The Huge mural-like long scroll work "Beyond GOD and Evil-H Wave" takes the setting of the royal court of the Song Dynasty (960–1279), which is the commanding heights of ancient Chinese history as the background, and Nietzsche's quotations as the script, unfolds multi-layered narrative landscapes about power, desire and individual will. More than twenty photographs from "Dawn Breaking" are collaged to form the main narrative line. On this basis, the artist expands the imagery structure, enriches the narrative texture and renders details through painting. "Image is the Film" uses continuous image narrative to form a non-linear still-frame film with no beginning or end. The collaged and painted images are like the split lens of a film, condensing and interpreting more than ten changing scenes of "Dawn Breaking". The artist attempts to explore the possibility of influencing narrative through images.
The long scroll shows a multi-centre perspective, highlighting the power relationship between the king and his ministers, generals and queens from the central perspective. The symbolic figures use metaphors to refer to the social classes in the structure of society, starting from the central figure in the painting, implying similar dilemmas encountered in different eras under the wheel of history, cyclical and solidified structural relationships, and imbalanced self and collective relationships. But enlightenment and inspiration are born out of chaos. As Yang Fudong's most extensive creation to date that combines photography and painting, the artist hopes to extend this work "H Wave" to express people's hope HOPE in facing life, their true inner HEART towards themselves, and reach the Height of ideals and beliefs.
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