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Industrial standard products: fractals have folded the horizon of the spiritual habitat工业标品:分形折叠了精神栖息地的地平线

Rockeries (Artificial Rockery / künstlicher Felsengarten) are a perfect metaphor for ‘mimicking nature / artificially constructed order’ in an artistic … Read MoreIndustrial standard products: fractals have folded the horizon of the spiritual habitat工业标品:分形折叠了精神栖息地的地平线

Beyond Manufactured Order: Spatiotemporal Interactions in the Age of Mass Alienation 超越被制造的秩序:大众疏离时代的时空交互

Emerging from mass production—four stainless steel salad bowls of different dimensions from a global supermarket chain—these visual elements embody a … Read MoreBeyond Manufactured Order: Spatiotemporal Interactions in the Age of Mass Alienation 超越被制造的秩序:大众疏离时代的时空交互

Industrial Standard Products: The “Man-Made Rocks” in Mental Sanctuaries工业标品:精神栖息地中的“人造岩石”

Four stainless steel salad bowls of fractal-scaling sizes originate from an international supermarket chain—mass-produced industrial commodities shaped by standardized molds. … Read MoreIndustrial Standard Products: The “Man-Made Rocks” in Mental Sanctuaries工业标品:精神栖息地中的“人造岩石”

Alienated Gaze: Folding Life, Folding Fields疏离的凝视:折叠的场域,折叠的生存

Spanning a decade (2012–2021), this body of work condenses Damao’s profound insight into the human condition. Interweaving performance, installation, and painting, the artist constructs a spatial topology of “Landlessness,” investigating how modern individuals confront abandonment, alienation, and the fixity of the gaze within the folding and interaction of space. … Read More >Alienated Gaze: Folding Life, Folding Fields疏离的凝视:折叠的场域,折叠的生存

【1/2】Non benchmarked opponents:Amidst the industrial visage of the community, the sole quest is for a singular, irreplaceable gaze and companionship.无对标的对象:社区里的工业脸孔,只为寻找一次不可替代的凝视与相伴

Every morning,
our razors and lipsticks never reach the self inside the mirror.
Thus in the future,
our ability to discern will become entirely second nature. … Read More >【1/2】Non benchmarked opponents:Amidst the industrial visage of the community, the sole quest is for a singular, irreplaceable gaze and companionship.无对标的对象:社区里的工业脸孔,只为寻找一次不可替代的凝视与相伴

Inside the Algorithmic Living Room: Always an Assassin Slipping Across在算法的客厅里:总有位无声穿梭的“刺客”

The human habit of verifying reality by calibrating senses through communication is long-established. However, in a contemporary era where all … Read MoreInside the Algorithmic Living Room: Always an Assassin Slipping Across在算法的客厅里:总有位无声穿梭的“刺客”

Algorithmic Determinism: The Subject Banished Within Folds of the Wilderness — Homecoming算法确定性:主体在荒野褶皱中被放逐——归乡

Beneath the shadow of Algorithmic Determinism, genuine “happening” has degenerated into a luxurious privilege.
Here, “banishment” is no longer a passive punishment, but an active refusal of systemic domestication and the judgment of collective mediocrity. Nestled within the folds of the wilderness, the subject resembles a blind wanderer returning home in the dark—bearing dark eyes born of the night.
Merging the observation of the present and the non-present observer into one——homecoming.
在算法确定性(Algorithmic Determinism)的笼罩下,真正的“偶发”演变为一种奢侈的特权。“放逐”不再是被动的惩罚,而是主体主动拒绝被系统驯化和平庸审判的抗争。在荒野的褶皱中栖息,如同夜晚回家的盲人,黑夜里的黑色眼睛。将观察者在场和不在场的观察,合二为一————回家。 … Read More >Algorithmic Determinism: The Subject Banished Within Folds of the Wilderness — Homecoming算法确定性:主体在荒野褶皱中被放逐——归乡