Seagulls, flying in sorrow and confusion,
Chasing the waves,
My thoughts
Also flying with the wind on the turbulent sea,
The tides are rough and the sea and sky are tilted.
Seagulls, flying in sorrow and confusion.
by Verlaine
The moment we lived
It's dark night before and after
"The world is bustling with prosperity, but our hearts are gradually becoming wastelands."
Three or four years ago in the fall, a young female artist ended her life with a rope in her studio, and her name was Sun Shaokun. The reason why I miss a vanished artist when the Old Calendar New Year is approaching is that I don't know what mark a person will eventually leave in this world.
The night before, she had just met with her foreign husband, who had been married for only a year and had been separated, and it was obvious that it was an unpleasant time period, no one knew what was happening, and the speculation at will was also a slightness to the deceased, but the marriage that should have abandoned the troubles of the world, seemingly the only safe haven, this night may have become the last straw that crushed Sun Shaokun.
Sun Shaokun's passing away contains many factors, even for a long time, the commemorative hustle and bustle, even beyond her somewhat controversial works, the impact in this circle in China is undoubtedly a little absurd and cold. In this real world of monolithic feelings, the ripples brought about by a person's final death quickly dissipate.
"The purpose of contemporary art is not to please the audience, but to trigger reflection", not to know Sun Shaokun very well, but her words still trigger infinite sighs. The following holidays, in the time period of her death, many people posted nostalgia in WeChat, and WeChat finally became our grand escape from each other. Seeing and not seeing, in the end still gone.
Sun Shaokun, who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts after the 1980s, studied Chinese painting that was almost rarely chosen at that time, and even if her works involved images, paintings, performance art and other mixed forms, they still revealed a strong classical meaning.
Her performance art works are very deep, not the kind of shallow works, profound in thought, delicate in structure, and feminine meticulousness, such as "You Sing And I Appear", "Picking Flowers and Stirring Grass", "More than enough every year", "Sexual Force" and so on.
Regarding the subject of the great desires of men and women, there is no shortage of forward and backward, "a dream of the Red Chamber, the scribes see "Yi", the Taoists see the adultery, the talents see the entanglement, the revolutionaries see the rows full, the commentators see the secrets of the palace", too normal, when you feel that the world is dirty, when you see through the peeping, in fact, you have to have the mentality to get rid of it independently, otherwise you will have no love.
Most of Sun Shaokun's works can basically be seen in the public exhibition, as for what to see, it depends on the individual's mental cultivation, behind her colorful, full of flexible, passionate, and real picture language, how much care for nature is buried, in fact, there are still wandering, desolation and determination belonging to human beings.
Sun Shaokun's death may be the intertwining of multiple factors in the world, the unhappiness of emotion and marriage, the economic constraints and embarrassment, as for the understanding of performance art in the domestic minority, and the poet's criticism of her creative method, all of which are inevitable.
Han Bing is said to be a close friend of Sun Shaokun, he is also a performance and photography artist, they have jointly designed some behavior plans since 2013, mutual assistance and joint completion of some performance works, it can be said that in art and life are closer to Sun Shaokun's friends.
After Sun Shaokun's death, Han Bing published an article "Daughter of the Earth" to commemorate Sun Shaokun, denying the depression that was prevalent on the Internet, thinking that "her tips are related to the pursuit of the ultimate life", and the text is full of interpretations of the loneliness of Sun Shaokun's art.
"I think there is a disguised 'suicide philosophy' based on the ultimate question of life, the potential Shao Kun heart, Shao Kun is a good at active thinking and very self-conscious intellectual girl, occasionally show confusion will get better, after marriage she began to believe in Buddhism, look down on the world's many things tired, her departure is not caused by general emotional confusion and general loneliness." Shao Kun has said that she pursues the social responsibility of the noble spirit, but the lofty quest in the secular world must produce an extreme spiritual loneliness. She had already figured out what life was, that life was not only earthly flesh, but also the true life of spiritual action. Shao Kun is our Van Gogh, and her soul is still alive, not only in our hearts, but also in the eternal dimension of a more real time-space. ”
I want to watch the "Picking Flowers and Grass" series at first, there is a shock to the female body openly, and then much calmer, "sex" is a very neutral place, red dust men and women, bustling, natural inheritance, in order to continue.
Secularized thinking about "sex", this is related to everyone's desires, what people see, the spring palace diagram on the petals, staying on the appearance, is the spring palace, in some people is a flower and a world, here Sun Shaokun expresses the influence of man on nature, where you come from, and where you go.
"Boring life, I don't want to die", how to live and reconcile with mediocrity, there may not be a shortcut, years and years are different, no matter what, any interpretation of the deceased, it is possible to wishful thinking, sometimes death is not a big dream, since the choice, silently reconcile with it in another world.
Works: Sun Shaokun