ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

Time Spy
SUN XUN 孙逊
2016
single-channel video
3D Woodcut Animation
9 minutes 3 seconds
Edition of 6 + 2AP
SX_5272

This film combines the traditional woodcut and 3D visual experience and discusses the relationship between the time and life. We preserve the past by maintaining our memory and value the future by our desire. When we mention history, present, future, and eternality, memory could lie to us and tomorrow could never exist. There is nothing forever because we only live at the moment. Everything endures in the flux of time. The Universe is the only authority that could determine everything, and we are just the spies of time.

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