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\u6768\u8fea\uff1a\u9ed1\u5ec9\u9965\u5b89<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The video works by Yang Di presented this time were created in moments of predicament, and overall these works do not have an overly obvious pessimistic mood. The strategy he adopts is to bypass conflict and proceed by way of a detour. For example, he uses white actors to \u201cre\u2011enact\u201d events hypothesised to take place in another space of a Western\u2011style universe, rather than the major events that happened on Earth in 2020. Using the \u201cgreater self\u201d to replace the social present, the focused lens is accompanied by a defocused signified, and the four films selected this time bring about the same atmosphere\u2014ambiguity and emptiness. For example, through a single female character he reflects the exploitation of women by contemporary consumer culture, and the viewer senses that she in the film is in a helpless loop with nothing to choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yang Di\u2019s films use a sliced manner to penetrate up and down through the \u201cspaces\u201d of various issues; the images are directional, while his thoughts are radiating, and the emotions are internal. These elements constitute the aesthetics of his films. Those characters are shaped in a deep way, and the viewers are drawn along by the roles played by the actors, entering a certain purified state. The scenes created by Yang Di are surprising; even with a black background, even with an image the size of an ordinary television screen, they will let you enter the \u201cspace\u201d he has set up, be \u201csurrounded\u201d and become the second or the nth character, and at that moment, you also evade the moment of predicament. By using consciousness to dismantle time and space, forgetting time and retaining only \u201cspace,\u201d only then can humanity avoid great catastrophe\u2014this is the best option for self\u2011rescue that Yang Di\u2019s films offer us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This film is a fragment from a fictional 1960s science\u2011fiction movie, set in the immigration office on Mars. The story tells of the eldest son of a middle\u2011class family, who comes alone to Mars to become a second\u2011generation Martian immigrant, and during the period when his stay is extended, he encounters abuse of power by immigration officials. The film uses two white people to perform racism, reflecting on its true core. The work Safe Word will be screened only at 7 p.m. on Friday, 29 August 2025, at which time there will be a live artist sharing and conversation event; please follow NONG Space\u2019s announcements about the screening and sharing activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the period of being forced into solitude by the pandemic, I began to continuously immerse myself in short videos; I even could not bring myself to charge my phone. Only when the screen went dark and, in the black mirror, I saw the moment of the delayed smile on my own face did it suddenly occur to me that this is an expression that only modern people would have. I project the state of prolonged solitude during the pandemic into a future era of interstellar migration, in order to reflect on this vacuum\u2011like, nihilistic existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This work originates from the \u201crebirth and revenge\u201d narratives common in women\u2011oriented online fiction and pay\u2011to\u2011read comics: the female protagonist dies because of betrayal, and after being reborn resolves to take revenge. It focuses on the pleasure and solace people obtain in the process of consuming stories (narratives), and attempts, by capturing the evolution of various story themes and narrative structures, to explore how they are transformed into new control technologies within a consumerist context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This film was created on the eve of the widespread use of smartphones. One day, when the story\u2019s protagonist wakes up, he discovers an umbilical cord emerging from his navel, with a USB plug at the end of the cord. From then on, he embarks on a path of resisting the phenomenon of addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exhibition\uff5cGuangzhou LongSpace
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