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'BANBAN'2023

Moving image(02:35), painting on the wall
Overall display dimension variable
Family Show: ONE, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London

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"Banban" is a dialect of Chongqing, southwestern China, referring to funeral performances unique to the region. The work BANBAN uses the funerary rituals of Chongqing, China as a backdrop and combines them with the rituals of witchcraft in primitive societies to construct a fictional narrative that imagines the singer roaming through nature, communicating and convecting with all things through singing.

'BANBAN', moving image(02:35), painting on the wall
 

After the pandemic 

Stillness

 

Leaving

Walking between the reincarnation of dusk and sunset

 

Singing along the way

Statues sink slowly along the raindrops

The roar is lost in the whispers of the trees

 

Life shivering everywhere

Hidden in the wind

Exhaling a wisp of cloud

 

The sum of life

Subtle

Airy

Heavy

 

The healing mantra echoes

Returning in the silence

大流行后

静止

 

离开

在黄昏和日落的轮回间行走

 

一路歌唱

雕像沿着雨滴慢慢下沉

吼叫没入树的低语

 

生命于各处发抖

在风中隐匿

呼出一缕云气

 

生命的总和

细微的、

轻飘的、

却也沉重的

疗愈的咒语回荡着

在寂静中回归

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'BANBAN', moving image(02:35), painting on the wall
 

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'BANBAN', moving image(02:35), painting on the wall
 

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