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CHEN
GAO





Art


  1. Room
  2. Corner
  3. Shell
  4. Rotating
  5. Mixture
  6. To be free
  7. Murmurs
  8. Brightness
  9. Reset
  10. Shadows
  11. Boundary
  12. Persona
  13. Entangled series
  14. Growth & Resides
  15. Floating
  16. “Ongoing” series
  17. 630 72 Greece
  18. Passing Through
    the Bubbles


Design


  1. graphic design
  2. sketch I
  3. sketch II
  4. sketch III
  5. sketch IV
  6. illustration


Film


  1. Polaroid
  2. 120mm
  3. 135mm 


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I had been trapped in a magnetic hole. The place is dark and empty but full of endless murmurs. Any movement I made caused roars. I tried to minimize my mobility to avoid Murmurs' attention, so I gradually integrated myself into this ghostly society with Murmurs. This invisible surrounding gave me faith. It was the Murmurs who gave me hope of life and destruction.

8. Brightness

 



2021

I have been groping, groping in front of what the world looks like. Is it black, white, void, or what else? I lost myself in the darkness. I see a long and inviolable pole from a distance, being approached by ghosts. It is sacred that upheld by preyers, gradually becoming an indelible "belief," constantly growing at will.

We are like two magnetic poles, seemingly identical but vaguely repulsive. As I am standing in the darkness, watching ghosts gather. We used to be so much alike can still fish in troubled waters into spiritual belief again. I want this pole to destroy, liberate ghosts, give free souls back to them, and let themself become their own faith. But I couldn't do it because I have no equal power to confront, but at least I can live for myself.

I began to grow, I don't need to become someone's faith like you, and I don't care what you think of me. I am who I am, so what can you do to me? I was attracted to you in the past because I was like you somehow. Still, we actually are different because I’m the brightness inherently.

I wake up and slowly open my eyes. Looking at my fingerprints again. Then I realized the fingerprint was the entrance that I had fallen into the magnetic hole in the previous. The supporting ghosts are Murmurers. People are always willing to believe what they want to think, but is it indispensable to pursue?

To pursue light in life, we must first thoroughly gaze at the hard reality called shadow in front of us, and in order to transcend it, we must muster the courage to move forward.
Tadao Ando







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