SHORT ARTIST STATEMENT Hi, I'm Jupiter. I divided my works into four categories to describe. First, photography,as art that can be gazed at, can convey emotions and has a metaphysical manifestation. In the project ‘Seven Days’, from a personal point of view. I used photography to narrate the feelings of spending the last seven days of my grandmother’s life.
Seven days 2021.08-2023.09
photography，installation，painting,sculptrue
I held an unattended funeral for her in the forest and painted with elements of her memory. I made a tomb for her in this world with the soil of my hometown. I used sculptur -e to cast the real her and the imaginary her.In addition t -o positive love and missing, what my grandmother did also brought me great negative influence. I used photography to tell the story of how my grandmother educated my father wit -h two-sided personality through extreme education methods. I used scar specimens to show the tragedy of my father's vi -olence to my mother caused by my grandmother's instition, and the chain reaction of my grandmother's rejection to my mother I looked back at Grandma's life with my own artistic perspective.
In 2021, during the last seven days of my grandmother's life, I was by her side.Grandma was the one who raised me, and after she dead, thoughts and memories of my grandmother gradually filled me.Even though I love my grandma and she l -oves me, she has a double-edged impact on me.I use art wor -ks to tell the double-edged influence of grandma on me.She is the person who loves me and also the biggest cause of my family tragedy. I explained my grandmother's life from my o -wn point of view, mainly divided into two lines of thinkin -g: First, my memory of my grandmother caused loving memori -es and sympathy for her tragic life; Second, my analysis o -f my grandmother revealed the spiritual influence and viol -ent injury of a vertical family relationship.Such family t -ragedy finally separated me. Chair funeral 2022.10.06 I had an unmanned funeral for my grandmother in the forest
Second, photography does not necessarily function exclusively from a human perspective. In the ‘Quest for Second-Tier’ project,I used fisheye lenses and special effects lenses to simulate fisheye vision experiments. Then created a living sculpture to record its journey from the village to the city, using this act to disturb the sense of human self-ownership in different environments for a moment.
Waiting for death 2022.10.07 A young bird could not learn to fly even with the whole family, repeatedly fell in the yard, and died the day after taking this picture. It may be born with a physical defect.
Waiting 2021.08.15 Three days before my grandmother died, she leaned against me, breathing weakly and painfully. I could barely sleep, my heart ached and I took this picture with tears in my eyes.
Third, an exploration of the boundary of photographic art. In the project ‘Pray for Creatures’,I combined the traditional Chinese blessing form with organic sculptures to build two outdoor ancestral halls for the creatures to pray for nature.The completion of the work needs to control the proportion of the sculpture in the photography.
Funeral under the Bodhi tree 2022.10.06 I re-held the funeral for my grandmother, with nine chairs representing nine people.
Finally, photography can be displayed in more than just a fixed frame or quiescent form. In the exhibition of the ‘Quest For Second-Tier’ project,I cut 108 pieces of photos taken by 360-degree fisheye camera to make an installation, and transformed the work twice with the help of glass; Video is flowing photography.In the project ‘Me and Me’, I tell the story of growing up with self-awareness in the form of stop-motion short films. Handbook of seven days 2023.06.26 14pages