《破茧》/ 陈艺楠 / 陶、塑料、金属、声音 / 2021
Break the Cocoon/ Yinan Chen/ Earthenware, plastic, metal, sound/ 2021
（茧、趋光性）群聚，个人与群体，束缚与焦虑，挣扎与打破
(Cocoon, Phototaxis) Clustering, Individual and Community, Restriction and Anxiety, Struggle and Breaking Through
蝴蝶成长过程中的每一次蜕变充斥着离解和重建，都是痛苦曲折的。从出生到死亡，从学校到社会，人作为一种社会性动物一直生活于大大小小的各种各样的社会组织中。融入社会的过程中，我们不得不受制于各种规则，并逐渐丧失个性和身份……人生的苦难与试炼，就像毛毛虫奋力挣扎最终破茧成蝶，自由飞翔，除前半生的悲伤和痛苦，得到自由和解脱。我探索的是人与社会环境相互影响与转变的过程，外在的影响束缚着人本身，个体表现为焦虑、挣扎的状态。
以白色半透明塑料膜热缩覆在黑色陶瓷蝴蝶上围成一个圆柱形，形成一颗巨大的“茧”，也可以看作是一幅没有边界的“屏障”。整个作品由内部金属支架支撑，分成6块组装成一个圆柱体，只在内部打灯，同时内部音箱会发出蝴蝶翅膀的拍打声；光影和音效都会增强作品质感与氛围，表现束缚、焦虑、挣扎的状态。
Each time of metamorphosis in the growing process of butterfly is packed with decomposition and reconstruction, painful and tortuous without exception. From birth to death and school to society, human beings, as a kind of social animal, have been living in social organizations of various types and sizes. We have to be subject to all kinds of rules when being assimilated to the society, and gradually lose our personalities and identities......The hardships and trials of human life is just like the fact that the caterpillar contrives to break the cocoon after struggling to become a butterfly with freedom to fly, so as to extinct the sorrows and pains in the first half of its life and get freedom and liberation. What I am searching for is the process of interactive influences and transformation between people and their social environment, during which the self of people is restricted by external influences, while individuals show a state of anxiety and struggles.
A cylinder with translucent white plastic film is built by circling them around the black ceramic butterflies through pyro-condensation process, so as to form a huge “cocoon”, or a “barrier” with no boundary. The whole piece of work is supported by metal racks and divided into 6 parts so as to assemble a cylinder. Only in the internal space of the work that lights are set, and the loudspeaker box inside makes the flapping sounds of wings of butterflies when they are flying. Lights and shadows, as well as the sound effect all intensify the theatrical atmosphere of the work, so as to express restrain, anxiety, the state of struggle.
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