Mourning Band
哀乐队

Mourning Band

2024

Digital Print on Velvet

300×45cm×4



Four vertical scrolls depict a traditional Chinese mourning band composed of instruments such as the erhu, suona, xiao, and sheng. The background features overlapping block elements in various styles, symbolizing skyscrapers. At the top, four sarcastic Chinese sayings (Core Technology, If You Don't Do It, Someone Else Will, Trust in the Wisdom of Future Generations, and Heaven Rewards Diligence) offer multiple interpretive clues.



Core Technology:

Satirizes unique Chinese cultural flaws or distorted practices, such as drinking culture, involution, bureaucracy, and formalism.

If You Don't Do It, Someone Else Will:

A typical phrase used for manipulation and oppression of workers in corporate workplaces.

Trust in the Wisdom of Future Generations:

Refers to organizations leaving unsolvable issues or self-created messes for future generations.

Heaven Rewards Diligence:

Mocks the ineffectiveness of the belief that hard work is always rewarded in the present era.



哀乐队

2024

数字微喷于天鹅绒材质

300×45cm×4



四幅竖轴描绘由二胡、唢呐、箫与笙构成的民间哀乐队，其背景由不同风格的块状元素叠成，象征高楼大厦。顶部的四句中文名言（核心科技，你不做有的是人做，相信后人智慧，天道酬勤）提供多重解读线索。

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