2022: production and installation for the Nanhai Art Festival
2023: Final works
Key Meanings: “…It is the fascination of the ruin that here the work of man appears to us entirely as a product of nature… Nature has transformed the work of art into material for her own expression, as she had previously served as material for art. “ Georg Simmel, ‘The Ruin’, 1911
Artist Statement: ‘Broken Temple’ is composed of a structure resembling an ‘upturned Pagoda roof’, as if time has ‘frozen’ in the event of the building’s destruction. Vegetation grows from the sculpture’s sides suggesting the mark of passing time. The sculpture which is installed on a lower platform near the archaeological remains, relates directly to the ancient wall above. It attempts to bring back the fleeting memory of the Ming period ancient temple which was built six hundred years before our time, at this exact location, and existed only 120 years until it was destroyed.
Loam wall of rammed earth, is a common building technique since ancient times. A mixture of silt, sand and gravel - usually excavated at the site - is poured in horizontal layers into a mould and compressed mechanically. The result is a very solid load bearing material with density which can be compared to concrete (1.8-2.2 t/mq).
