Biin Shen: Escaping to another
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- Escaping to another
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This work is based on the artist’s personal experience during quar- antine, and it aims to inspire imagination and hope for the future, for unreachable places, especially in the particular situation of the year 2020.
In Book VIII of The Republic (Plato, 375 BC), behind the people trapped in the cave, there is a passage that leads through the entire cave. The people staring at the shadows have a passage behind them, one that leads through the entire cave. With this piece, the artist evokes a new type of experience, one that bridges the tension between shadows and passage, in a piece that is both figuratively fleeting and offers an imaginary redemption.
There is a Chinese proverb: “Before the body moves, the mind is already far away,” which means that the physical body is still in place, but the mind is already set free to wander through time and space. Sit, and lift your head to feel the clouds of London or Tokyo pass overhead, listen to familiar sounds from another city and you will feel being carried a thousand miles away for a moment.
