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Wang Tuo

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Obsessions

痴迷录

2023

In his video work Obsessions, the artist Wang Tuo is inspired by a mysterious missing person case. He hopes to use this piece to generate discussions about desire, obsessions, architectural aesthetics, and Otaku culture, against the backdrop of the Internet age. The monologue in the artwork reveals the process in which an architect is gradually hypnotized by a therapist, who tries to make his patient imagine himself as a piece of architecture. As the therapist enters this structure from the outside, exploring its inner structure, he thereby gains access into his patient's inner world. In the meantime, the therapist also discovers a "secret chamber" hidden away in this piece of architecture, which is essentially the patient's subconscious. The video presents the audience with an opportunity to thoroughly explore the "Beijing Fusuijing Building", a structure built in the 1950s as an embodiment of socialist ideals. Today, however, it lies half-abandoned. This piece of architecture bears tremendous symbolic significance, as it is reminiscent of the ''Big Dumb Objects" often seen in the writing of British science fiction writer Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, denoting something huge that is right in front of us but that we can not communicate with. Here, the artist attempts to use the spatial structure of architecture to imitate the structure of our subconscious, which is oftentimes obscure and indiscernible. Lastly, the artist also brings forth the idea of a "failed structure".

影像作品《痴迷录》源于艺术家对一宗迷离失踪案的关注,继而引发了其对 网络时代的欲望和执念、建筑美学与御宅文化的探讨。作品的独白暗示了一 位建筑师正被心理治疗师催眠的过程,治疗师试图让建筑师把自己想象成一 座建筑,通过由建筑外部进入内部,继而探索内部结构的过程,层层进入这 个人的内心,发现隐藏于建筑和潜意识中的“密室”。观众看到的影像是对 建造于上世纪 50 年代末,而今处于半荒废状态社会主义大楼“福绥境”由 外及内的探索。作品中极具象征意义的建筑就像英国科幻小说家阿瑟·克拉 克口中在你眼前却无法沟通的“巨大沉默物”。在此,艺术家试图以建筑的 空间结构指代人类难以被认清的潜意识结构,并同时讨论了“失败建筑”的 概念。

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