"Pupa", this image is quite often used in Yuenjie's art works in recent years. It can be represented as "Born, Disintegration, Cycle, Regeneration". He uses different materials to represent different resistance and issues in our life. For example, his work of human-pupa of (chinese) theatre is to talk about urban development issue. For Yuenji, he thinks that "human is the most important element" of his work. Yuenjie wants to probe into what changes will be occurred when human come out from the pupa.
From the art works you choose, I find that this artist focus on human and the relations among humans or between human and society.
回覆刪除At the first sight of the human-pupa series, I took them as mummies and guessed that maybe the theme is about death or everlasting. But when I pay attention to the props and surroundings, I have a new feeling that it may be about “reborn”, the same as what has been said in one of your interpretations. There is also a focus on the environment changes in this series, which I think is more concerning to the social changes and culture preservation issues.
Also, from your introduction and interpretations, I feel that performance art is such a vivid and profound art form, which is very typical in contemporary art.