连系艺术家以往的创作,萧潇的视频作品《不息》可以看作是他过往的作品“空间系列”、”量具系列“的拓展与延伸,对后工业时代的生产景观和个体对空间、时间的感知经验间的关联持续发问的实践。
《不息》并不像萧潇过往的作品那样,强调一种冷静、持久的凝视,而是一个从凝视跌入出神,再回到凝视反复的过程,如步履悬丝。时间,在现代以前仅仅是哲人脑海中的概念。而到工业化以来,成为催迫所有人的鞭子——所有的问题,本质上都是时间问题,它即是问题也是答案。
黄诗云
In line with his previous works, the video Timeless by Xiao Xiao could be viewed as a continuation and extension of his earlier series “Rational Reality” and “Scale”, which are successional practices questioning the subtle connections between the post-industrial landscape and the individual perceptive experience of space and time.
Previous works of Xiao Xiao highlight the gazing of impassiveness and incessancy. Restless differs in style, in terms of a repetitive yet subtle process, of gazing falling into and emerging out of a state of trance. The time was only a concept constructed by philosophers before the industrial era, but has become a whip lashing the contemporary crowd – the question of time is the question of everything, and is itself the question and the answer.
Shiyun Huang