Zachary Sun: Desynchronized Body
@ Roman Susan
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Opening Sunday, November 10th, at 3PM
On view through Sunday, November 17th
The ridges and ravines on a shell, the furcation and fractures in my hair, backwater lingering, advancing within the flesh.
Able to see the ups and downs? The ashes and erosion?
Are they a whisper or a stare? Profound or invisible?
The growth rings, are growing and forgetting, grown and forgotten.
Engraved and obliterated, by whom?
It’s the name given by a mother.
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𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 is an interdisciplinary performance and installation work by Zachary Sun, part of the ongoing project, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘤. This project stems from a series of studies on body rhythms, inspired by a 1954 oyster experiment. Through the symbolism of oysters and a collage of occurrences, 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 provides a physical intersection for examining the power dynamics of named bodies/labeled identities, modern cosmopolitanism, and environmental ideology.
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Zachary Sun is a Chinese-born, Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who creates performances, installations, writing, film, animation, and puppetry. He instrumentalizes his artistic practice as a way to observe and perceive. He deconstructs the semantics and media of presence to cultivate new syntactic forms beyond the poetic and absurd through the processes of weaving and collage. His current focus is to use this framework to explore personal experience, archaeological discoveries in his hometown, geological development, and power succession — and, through these elements, to uncover new possibilities for expressing structural relationships.
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