Group Show, In Harmony With The Way, Shangh ART Gallery, Shanghai China 18 August - 22 September
Sunday, 18 August - Sunday, 22 September, 2024
Blog 4, No.288 Ruining Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai China
Yao Qingmei
Mole, 2022-2023
Single-channel HD video, color, sound 12' 21"
Yao Qingmei has imagined a mole-man living in a luxury hotel room. Unlike the troglodyte animal obsessed with the subterranean castle in Kafka’s short story «The Burrow», the carefree mole-man spends all day caring for his long, beautiful nails, having lost all impulse to dig tunnels. His repetitive, meaningless daily actions become an obstacle, as the long, lovely nails become barriers. The short film deploys numerous shaky, blurred subjective shots, creating an anguish of confinement through excruciating close-ups, reinforcing a fragmentation and repetitive loop worthy of a broken dream.
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