2001 Public Space (Screenshots of video works)

VB-0036-004, 2002

5’07”, PAL, 720 x 576, sound, color

Type: Single channel video

File version: Exhibition version

 

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A voice appeared, a woman said, “In order to survive, we can sell anything, even our body and soul, but there is only one thing we cannot sell!” A man said, “What?” A woman said, “Love!”

The picture is dark and unclear, like an open-air night. On the screen is the painful and decisive voice of a Mongolian woman. She is a long-haired beauty from the 1970s, holding her chin high, telling a historical declaration. The resolute man’s doubtful expression seemed to complement the woman’s decisive declaration on the screen. This sound is repeated continuously in conjunction with the picture, exceeding people’s expectations of the common sense judgment of the picture, and the continuous repetition of this sound also creates a sense of oppression and a violent invasion in the viewer’s heart. For one minute , two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, every minute of expectation and patience is a self-destructive contradiction that cannot be resisted and endured.

（Text Provided by the Artist）