OLDER WORKS
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Ahuacatl ii
Video Installation (Full-HD, 16:9, 6 minutes), 2013-2014

Men Rarely See a Living Elephant
Video Installation (Full-HD, 16:9, 6 minutes), 2017
” The character for image was derived by
homophony from that for “elephant.” On this basis the authors of the Han Feizi explained ”image” as follows:
Men rarely see a living elephant, but they can see the bones of dead elephants. On the basis of this representation they think of [what it was] in life.
Therefore the means by which people are able to have an idea of or think about something are all called “elephants/images.” Although the Way
cannot be heard or seen, the sage grasps its visible functions to fix a vision of its “form.” Therefore it [the Dao de jing] says, “The formless form, the ‘thingless’ image.
Here the flesh of the elephant has vanished and can only be deduced from its skeletal image. “
Walking in the Zoo in the Ok Thing to Do
Video Installation (Full-HD, 16:9, 7 minutes), 2017


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