• Chen Xiaoyun
  <Bi>: A Mythical Wild Animal—–Symbol of Durance, 2008
  Courtesy the artist and The Project, New York
  

With his video works and largescale photographs, Chen Xiaoyun examines the relationship between the individual and society in China’s rapidly changing cultural climate. His works emphasise the artist’s role in searching for possible ways in which the individual can escape, often using strong, apparently meaningless and anarchic gestures to illustrate the human individual within its environment. <Bi>: A Mythical Wild Animal–-Symbol of Durance (2008) continues the artist’s themes of physical struggle and imprisonment. The video presents a human figure as a modern-day mythical animal, struggling and bewildered in a dark, theatrical and surreal landscape that has been churned and violated by a circling chain of trucks – symbols of the machinery of increasing industrialisation.

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