China Presentation for the 2005 Yokohama Triennale
(2005.09.28 - 12.18)

Chen Xiaoyun, Several Moments Extending into a Night II, video installation 11'00''， 2004


Within the dark room, the screens of 4 video projections juxtaposes an extraordinarily strong feeling of movement with scenes from daily life and connections with an unconscious world, creating an alternative feeling of displacement and visual imagination. In this poetic work, the artist carefully dissects the "beyond ordinary" psychology of humankind in the quotidian life. It is a meaningless struggle to obtain as well as release of unknowable events and mysterious worlds. As a collective experience of humankind, the work's formulation also has an extreme individualism. This works individualist feeling narrative forms a strong contrast between the questions of individual and collective with other participating Chinese artist works.