Women descending the staircase , 2025
画廊上下楼梯的平台处，被放置着一块重达的61.6公斤的石头，它来自艺术家的故乡的河流上游，并以他的母亲的体重为度量衡，将肉身的存在转化为地质的永恒性。楼梯的平台处被涂上了一层铅，在其反光的左右下，时而沉重，时而轻盈。并且我们能够观看到一条条像似因石头移动所引起的痕迹。但当我们凑近石头底部，我们会发现石头的下方压着一些珍珠。这些珍珠是来自艺术家父亲年轻时时候送给母亲的一串珍珠项链。它们似乎才是这些痕迹的重要的因素。（楼道立面的墙，也被艺术家用铅笔涂抹，艺术家说这个灵感来自于搬运石头时候，他的故乡河流边的草木所带给它的一种感受。）
石头的静默与珍珠的所产生的移动痕迹在告诉观众，记忆所具体的两种特质：压迫感与救赎力。艺术家通过物质本身的物性对话，将私密家庭记忆升华为普世性的存在寓言。当故乡的河石与异乡的楼梯空间相遇，仿佛联想起艺术家的母亲手提一家人的所需之物穿越楼梯的每个黄昏。当父母的爱情信物在时空中持续运动，装置最终构成了一个永动的记忆引擎，在重力与浮力、家庭与个人的辩证中，持续书写着关于爱与重量的诗学。
Women descending the staircase , 2025
At the staircase's landing, a stone weighing 61.6 kilograms is placed. It comes from the upper reaches of a river in the artist’s hometown and is weighed by the weight of his mother, transforming the existence of the flesh into the permanence of geology. The landing is coated with a layer of lead, which, under its reflective surface, alternates its appearance between bulky and agile. We can also observe traces that seem to be left behind by the movement of the stone. But looking closely beneath the stone, we find pearls pressed underneath. These pearls are from a necklace gifted by the artist’s father to his mother in their youth and seem to be the crucial element behind the stone’s traces. The walls in the hall have pencil marks left behind by the artist, who says that this is inspired by the feeling that the trees and bushes give him when moving the boulder of rock by the river.
The silence of the stone and the traces of movement created by the pearls speak to the audience of two specific qualities contained within memory: a sense of oppression and a force of redemption. Through a dialogue between the material properties of the objects themselves, the artist elevates intimate family memories into a universal allegory of existence. When the river stone from the artist’s hometown meets the staircase in physical space, it evokes the image of the artist’s mother carrying the family’s belongings up and down the stairs under a setting sun. As the love tokens of his parents continue to move through time and space, this installation work ultimately forms a perpetual engine of memory, continuously writing poetry of love and weight within the co-existence of gravity and lift, family, and individuality.
