Rewriting the profound discourse on life and death in Lu Xun’s Old Tales Retold, the artist constructs an "amphibian theater" of the absurd. Zhuangzi’s lofty philosophical concepts are reduced here to the senseless cacophony of frogs in a pond. The figure of Zhuangzi, attempting a metaphysical revival, and the nihilistic skull are alike stripped of their humanity, regressing into lurid, blank-staring beasts. In this confrontation between high-minded idealism and the rigid bones of reality, philosophical truths dissolve into mere pond-side noise: loud, chaotic, and fundamentally hollow.
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