Zhu Ziyi

Kinetic sculpture/ installation.

The square container's edge, the water surface, and the hemisphere container edge are flush after the 100g-weight is placed in the hemisphere. Hemisphere's volume is converted to the buoyancy of the same volume of water, equal to the weight in the sphere. The importance of the weight marks the buoyancy weight, and in the confrontation of the ultimate equilibrium, the hemisphere can float freely on the water surface. Fragments in the time squeeze can develop in any direction, yet any only ending is a fatalistic consequence of temporal confrontation.

It is a kinetic sculpture that lasts 17 hours.

Viewers can choose to watch the whole process, or they can choose to break in at a particular moment and observe the progress of time from an intruder's perspective. "The present and the past", "the objective world and the self", the existence of time leaves traces, and the everyday and invisible "phenomenon" is translated into visible and sensible things. Time-going changes the sculpture's height and the increasing watermark area on the cement surface. Lengths of time are translated into visual material states.

Like time, this monumental sculpture is quiet and enormous.

It is a 7hrs kinetic sculpture.

Over time, the ice cube melts and loses its weight. Then the spring wire shrinks to bring the ice cube to a higher height. When the ice melts at an increased height, the sound of water drops becomes louder, and the water drop mark becomes larger. In the concept of temporality, the longer the time, the more accumulation of things produced. But the disappearance of everything, in the end, raises the thoughts of the concept of “empty” and existence.

Collaboration performer: Yan Ji