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There’s still hope for humanity
2018
Mirror finish stainless steel, metal chains
Diameter 140cm
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In “Metal Language” series, XU ZHEN® extracts sentences from political cartoons in their original fonts and reproduces them using metal chains.
The choice of metal shackle reflects the ambiguity of history itself: it is a treasure and a burden. The shininess of metal shackle along with the many exclamation marks evoke the chaos of a graffiti wall, where the many individual statements blend into one bigger picture.
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