An Expansion of Kobo Abe’s The Red Cocoon (Reading)
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Dusk is the time when the conflict between freedom and belonging becomes the most irreconcilable: to embrace the sense of belonging would compromise freedom, while one’s yearning for freedom would always bring fears of solitude. Engulfed under the stratosphere of the dimming light, one has no choice but to bear the weight of this eternal dilemma of human experience. Taking Kobo Abe’s The Red Cocoon as a point of departure, the artist expands the story through viewing and reading. The experiences are then translated into a combined presentation consisting of seven "tinted" photographs (viewing) and three sets of modified “dialogues” (reading).
对《赤之茧》的拓写尝试（读）
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黄昏是一天中自由和归属的愿望冲突得最为激烈的时间：若寻求归宿，就要牺牲自由；向往无拘无束，又对孤独感到不安。身处于黄昏，就意味着不得不承受人类永恒的悖论愿望所引发的震颤。以安部公房的小说《赤之茧》为母本，艺术家在这对同源的作品里分别通过“看”与“读”对故事拓写，最终在空间里整体呈现为七张被“染色”的照片（看）与三组被“重组”的对话（读）。
