Chen Yunzhu (b.1996) was born in Hubei, China. She is an image-maker who spends most of the time drawing while daydreaming. She is obsessed with generating nonsense images and visualizing the feeling of nothingness.
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Yunzhu Chen
“My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty.” Jean-Paul Sartre
None-feeling for her is that she couldn’t find the meaning in life, but she is still living in this massive world. She created abstract animation aiming to convey how feelings of emptiness and fullness flooded at the same time.
Things are happening constantly, it affects her, she wants to ignore these, but it plays with her. Things fill up her life and it all pulls away at one moment, then it fills up again, repeating and looping, but in the end, nothing is left, only oneself standing in the empty room.
The world is muffled, so muffled that no one can hear the shriek. The world is cacophonous, so cacophonous that everyone can hear the silence.
(Video Sound: Ruaridh Summers, Music: Chang Liu)
25.03.2020
7:00 am
I woke up, I remember I have my first class at 7:30 am today
I hurriedly prepared everything I needed for school
Stepped into my dad's car at the fastest speed
7:20 am
Dad's car was parked on the opposite side
I saw my favorite rice noodle restaurant
But there was a long line in front of it
I was willing to take that bite of rice noodles
So I waited
I was willing to take that bite of rice noodles
So I stayed
8:40 am
I'm still inline
This line seems to be endless
I don’t know when I can eat my beloved rice noodles
Maybe the first class is over now
10:00 am
Watching time goes by
I was anxious
I was bored
I hesitated
I faltered for a while
I was thinking about whether to leave or not
It's still in time for the last class of this morning
11:30 am
Finally, it’s my turn
I told the clerk
' Please give me a bowl of beef noodles. '
She answered me
Sold out.
Closed.
12:00 am
Neither did I go to important classes
nor have I eaten my favorite rice noodles
25.03 2020
7:27 am
I woke up again
In bed in the UK
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