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Yao Diwen
2025
watercolour on paper
36(H)*51cm
YDW_4898


In I Talk to the Wind, the artist uses “wind” as an invisible yet omnipresent medium to point toward the ghostly persistence of patriarchal power in a state of collapse. The work stages a confrontation between an aging “father-god” and a young male figure filled with vitality: the former hollowed out by history and authority, the latter shaped as the sacrifice through which patriarchy continues itself. Power here is no longer merely a tool of domination, but a mechanism that survives through its own repetition and loss.
The wind functions both as a carrier of memory and as a metaphor for historical motion. It blows past myths of the past into the present, binding individuals to cycles of inheritance and replacement. Through a restrained yet tense visual structure, the work condenses this invisible historical logic into a relationship of gazes, where the viewer confronts the fading father figure while recognizing their own position inside the same system.

Related Exhibitions:
Moonlight Without Visa, ShanghART M50, Shanghai 01.31, 2026 -03.31, 2026



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