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YILE ZENG


J014 is wind’s name




Overall display variable, 1 displayer, 1 audio system
Installation &  Photography: Zeng Yile
Music: Zhu Zhenqi & Zeng Yile
Duration: 4min, 31 sec


J014 embodies an alien’s metamorphosis from an unanchorable name into a formless wind. The intentionality, which emerges in the act of gaze, is questioned in this short film. Does having a name given by its mother justify a purpose of its existence? Is intentionality still valid when J014 is suffering from amnesia and struggling with the lack of its mother’s recognition? The gaze reaches out, withdraws itself, and eventually creates its mirroring body reflexively. A body with destructible mortality, fragmented, but detachable from its mother’s unanchorable will. A body which is ready to be burnt into nothingness, to lose its nostalgia, to transform itself into a formless movement, a playfulness of wind.