2013

THE DEMISE OF A HEAVENLY BODY describes the perspective of the author toward the environment, in which the contemporary life is experiencing an approaching of the end of world, with the clues in the details of our living, reminding us that we’re ahead of a perishing world. Through the characteristics of reality and symbolism of photography, the author tries to construct a context by the interconnection of image and installation, allowing the audience entering into the territory of imagination and presage.

In the usage of photography, the author tries to incubate a feeling of anxiety and also a sense of reality of something might/had been happened, through the editing of walls, to allocate pictures in different sizes in the exhibition space, as galaxies within the universe interacting through the gravity and light of beam. The author wishes photography could echo with the experiences of each audience, to generate even more feelings and imagination.

Talking to the installation, the author used two reports about the atomic power and one stopped clock with a skipping second hand in cooperating with the sense of uncertainty and time-eliminating characteristics of photography together, pulling the events from the past to the modern living. Subjectively the author feels that the end of the world was started from the time when Japan was dropped the first atomic bomb. But the era never left us since 1945, the contradiction and crisis of atomic power still around in our environment, and it seems those reports are just like memories of yesterday, even most of us have not been experiencing that age.

Finally, the moment that the second hand stays temporarily, is when the first atomic bomb burst above Hiroshima.