“IT IS THE MERCY”
水池射灯，玻璃缸，电子鱼，金鱼，听诊器
Spotlight in Pool， Aquarium， Digital Fish，Goldfish，Echometer
音乐music：Hoshiko Yamane + Duenn
尺寸可变 Variable size
2017
“IT IS THE MERCY”
from
the British female artist Tacita Dean
in the 90‘s
very
important video works “Disappearance at Sea
(1996)”, she
was based on the British crew Donald Crowhurst
participated the competition of sailing the world by Times in
the 1968, and launched a series of creation to tell about Crowhurst
sailing by himself and he was later disappeared incidentally.
One of the work is that the artist engraved the four words "it is the mercy" on the corridor of the National Maritime Museum, which is taken from the last page of the Crowhurst's sailing diary and the last day he wrote on.
In the context of Tacita‘s work, this sentence implies a natural irresistible force. When I appropriated this sentence into my work, I put this sentence on the metal stethoscope, we can use the stethoscope to hear the electronic fish make a sound like a heartbeat (general movement), and the real fish instead quietly. The transparent barrier discussed throughout the entire exhibition was stimulated by the absurdity between real fish and electronic fish
.One of the work is that the artist engraved the four words "it is the mercy" on the corridor of the National Maritime Museum, which is taken from the last page of the Crowhurst's sailing diary and the last day he wrote on.
In the context of Tacita‘s work, this sentence implies a natural irresistible force. When I appropriated this sentence into my work, I put this sentence on the metal stethoscope, we can use the stethoscope to hear the electronic fish make a sound like a heartbeat (general movement), and the real fish instead quietly. The transparent barrier discussed throughout the entire exhibition was stimulated by the absurdity between real fish and electronic fish
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