Jinwen Xian | 冼津文

“An event may be small and insignificant in its origin, and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its centre an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently.” BABO is proof of this viewpoint, as well as an example of showing the fullness of a small event. In the BABO, you can see many items which seem to be independent but can be connected to form an irregular grid. We all wandered on this grid.

After watched a reality show last year, I realised that reality is not what it seems. The world is more complex than we thought, and we can no longer distinguish the illusion from reality. Instead of being obsessed with the ‘truth’ of reality, this project reconstructed the image of reality through what it called ‘Baboism’, illustrated by three different bubble-shaped objects (camera lens, Amazon Sphere and air bubble in the ice). What ‘Baboism’ reveals is that we can only see a collection of events as a process of de/reconstruction: narratives are decomposed to simple principles and imaginations, which later are reconstructed as new narratives.

This project started with the fantasy of chasing stars and ended with the sigh of the complexity of the world. This is a broken, incoherent project, and I will not continue to improve it, because I am a half-assed person. When facing a complicated world like this, I can only choose to be relaxed, be selective, and be irreducible.

P.S: This is my WIP project: https://wip2021.rca.ac.uk/students/jinwen-xian

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