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Xuanyu HuangSpring-driven Live
This series of works is not only a kind of artistic mapping of my personal experience, but also reflects the journey that most people face in the cultural and social environment. With the help of Freud's "superego" theory, we can see that we are under repression and control, gradually losing our individual independence, and being reduced to some kind of patterned existence shaped by the outside world.
Fromm states, "Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."( Erich Fromm, 1914, Escape from Freedom) Forced obedience ossifies education, and instead of experiencing justice, people will only be forced to accept it, willingly or unwillingly, in a relationship of subjectivity or objectivity. The alienating and grotesque series of illustrations reveals university students who are subjected to forced obedience.
"The Inescapable Dream" Twisted runways, neatly organised queues, and the inescapable individual "we".
The Distorted Jigsaw of Existence Smiling puppets, lives wrapped in control, egos shattered long ago.
The perpetual motion machine has no ego, a life of domestication, a life of travelling along a planned path until the moment it burns out.
The "I" has learnt to lie "in good faith", to close off my true self and not to express it any more.