WANG YUANHUI
ECHOES OF STONE
INSTALLATION
SANDSTONE, TRACING PAPER
DIMENSIONS VARIABLE
2023
The stones remember what you forget.
After the epidemic, I began to concentrate on thinking about natural objects and integrate them into my work. Stones are the link between human beings and various civilisations, revealing us to perceive our place in time and space. I consider the relationship between human beings and natural objects from a broader dimension.
4.5 billion years ago, meteorites brought life to the earth.
In ancient times, early humans began to use stones to make tools, and stones became objects.
In modern times, stones are everywhere, in cities, buildings, furniture, and everyday objects.
In the future, perhaps the structure of the human-centred world changes, stone becomes the dominant player in the world, and civilisation reopens once again.
I found a stone, observed and deconstructed it in Acton Cemetery, a cemetery near my home. Acton Cemetery was built in the late Victorian period and displays the history of a period of time, where celebrities and soldiers were buried, and where the field gave the stone the properties of reincarnation, of balance, of carrying the memories of people.
I wrote a poem from the pespective of this stone, printed on thin paper, and put it together with the stones in the space.The thin paper is fragile, delicate and perishable, like our civilisation, whereas the stone is relatively timeless, and I demonstrate the different scales of time and existence through contrast. I create fictional narratives in the form of future archaeology, exploring a conceptionn of civilisation.
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