‘蜃楼’— 杨工业
In this vertical conformation, I attempt to record a chaotic yet unified material order. I embedded the conflicting images of water and fire, vegetation and blood color respectively into the calm metal grilles and aluminum cabins. They are like classified and labeled survival images, sharing the same narrow industrial space under the forced fixation of bolts. I have no intention of endowing them with explicit meanings. I merely wish to present the true state of being "collected" and "assembled" - life fragments of different attributes are piled up layer by layer in mechanical logic, forming a silent and dense visual appearance.
Born in Qinzhou, Guangxi in 2001, he obtained a bachelor's degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2023 and began his master's studies at the same academy in the same year. I am currently working and living in Beijing.
Now with consumption environment is nothing feeling as a starting point for creation. From the initial depiction of the character "zhi", it points to the suspended state of existence itself. Then, in the "Gambling on Stones" series, the dynamic forms of nothingness are discussed. The purpose is to illustrate how modern people fill the void of time with accidental stimuli, only to find a deeper emptiness after the stimulation. At the current stage, we are examining the emergence of a sense of nothingness after the industrial age from multiple perspectives.
