During a trip two years ago, I was unexpectedly trapped in Jiajin Mountain, which is more than 4000 meters above sea level. There was a shortage of food and water, low temperature weather, and no clothes were prepared in advance for the unexpected situation. Once the sun went down, the situation would only worsen. The thought of death flashed through my mind, and I wanted to write something to leave a proof of my existence.

In the process of finding a way out, I was surprised to find that the foals living in the mountains were quietly eating, undisturbed, as if they were not related to the danger surroundings, and survival was their entire life. In the end, I left nothing behind. I only brought back those photos.

2年前的一次旅行中，我意外地被困在海拔4000多米的夹金山。食物与水源短缺，低温天气，加上突如其来的状况也并未提前准备衣物，一旦等到太阳下山，情况只会更加糟糕。我的脑海里也闪出了死亡的念头，我想写点什么遗言，给自己的存在留下一个证明。在寻找出路的过程中，我惊讶地发现生存在山间的雏马，它们安静地进食，不被打扰的状态，仿佛与周遭不相关联，而生存就是它们生命的全部... 最终，什么也没留下，也只带回来了那些照片。

在寻找出路的过程中，我惊讶地发现生存在山间的雏马，它们安静地进食，不被打扰的状态，仿佛与周遭的危险不相关联，而生存就是它们生命的全部... 最终，什么也没留下，也只带回来了那些照片。

How should I deal with "me" ？

How do we define death？Human beings exist as living beings, and death is the loss of brain function. Maintaining its function seems to be the ultimate meaning of existence. Is this function exclusive to living beings?
When functionality is lost, existence loses its meaning, and this is the form of everything in our world. We live in a function-oriented ideology and death is a link to all the traces of our daily lives, hidden beneath the surface and not easily noticed, but it is the end of the journey that we will eventually reach.

I realized that death is not a single dimension of things, and that death should not only be a limitation on living beings. We should pay attention to the loss of function itself, the meaning of existence, and the manifestation of death. The study of these issues enables me to better understand the meaning of life and the search for self-worth. In this group of photos, I attempted to abstract scenes and objects seen in daily life to explore metaphors that are seemingly unrelated to death, but are actually highly related to it, in an attempt to broaden the spiritual core of death in different dimensions.

我们如何定义死亡？人类作为生命而存在，死亡是脑部功能的丧失，维持它的功能仿佛是存在的究极意义，那这种功能是否只是生命的专属呢？当功能丧失，存在也就失去意义，而这就是我们世界万物的形态。我们生存在一个以功能为导向的意识形态之中，死亡是链接着我们日常的一切痕迹，它隐秘在表象之下，不易察觉，但却是终将抵达的旅途终点。

我意识到死亡并不是单一维度的事情，死亡不应只是对生命体的框限，我们应该注意到丧失功能的本身，存在的意义与死亡的显现。这些问题的研究能够使我更能看清生命活着的意义，找寻自我价值。这组照片里我尝试在生活中抽象日常所见的场景与事物，来探究表面与死亡不相关，但实际与死亡有极大关联的隐喻，试图拓宽死亡在不同维度的精神内核。

What “substance” does not exist in death?

Under this cruel judgment, only those who can withstand the punishment of time, still in shape and color, is truly beautiful.
Water, even small and fragile, cannot escape the corrosion of time. They receive sentences in a long river of time, starting with the weak and relentlessly integrating into the cycle of the universe.

在这残酷的审判下，只有那些能够耐受时间的刑罚，仍然保持着形与色，才是真正的美丽。
水，纵使微小而脆弱，也无法逃避时间的腐蚀。它们在时间的长河中一一接受刑罚，从弱小者开始，无情地融入宇宙的循环。

The peaks in the
lens reflect the
deep valleys of my
silence, they cut
through me, I see
me one by one

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“La muerte es una vida vivida. La vida es una muerte que viene.”

“18674001937”

"It was noon, and the great energy coming from distant objects penetrated the windows of his house, After refractive reflection diffuse reflection and mirror reflection, The light is focused on the refrigerator, which makes the refrigerator very bright, God, the Holy King of Glowing Refrigerators! The sun from the king of the refrigerator blurred the man in front of him, and his face began to burn, eyebrows, eyes, nose, and then the corner of his mouth. The king of the refrigerator silently accepts the devotional prayers of the faceless believer... "

“现在是中午，从遥远天体射出的巨大能量穿透了他家的窗户，经过折射反射漫反射与镜面反射后，光线聚焦在冰箱身上，这让冰箱变得很亮，天哪，神圣的发光冰箱之王！冰箱之王发出的阳光让面前的男人变得模糊起来，他的脸开始燃烧，眉毛，眼睛，鼻子，然后是嘴角。冰箱之王沉默地接受着无面信徒虔诚的祈祷……”（节选现场表演）

Performance Art
Variable length of time
SabakiSpace
Chengdu
2023

Actor | Liu Yingjie Rundong

Exhibition Views
SabakiSpace
Chengdu
2023

Metal Paper Printing
90 x 60 cm
2023

Acrylic Printing
24.7 x 16.5 cm
2022