Yuling Chen

Yuling Chen

artist, writer, blogger, filmmaker, maker, etc.

Shokkan

Shokkan at royal Ontario museum reveals a penchant for Japanese art. Its artistic inclination remains obscured by the curatorial initiative to include as many objects as possible. The focus on paper seems to elude a new type of environment in North America claiming dancing in the public is indecent. However this pointed attack often brings about even more lewd description of bodies in the urban space. Rom used to exhibit artists works which focus body horrors on animals and how they dress. Nowadays it’s busy dealing with new waves of progressive talks about body dysmorphia than ever before. Shokkan brings back the nature of things in the network of objects, time and space. It makes wearing dresses a taboo, a forbidden fruit and a new way of expressing discontent. Especially the empire waist dress comparing to Japanese dress, kimono. What is used to be a representation of modesty becomes a star of turning gazes inward. I saw some artists’ works on the web, they filmed kissing in extremely discreet mode, New York City through random quick editing, and medical exams were interpreted through 3d animation of skulls. These works all have a similar content to claims the talk show hosts and influencers like Alex cooper, Dee hsu , ballerina farm, and Jack schlossberg are nothing but a figment of people’s imagination. Their lives and deaths consist of nothing but a whimer of success in the growing public space dispute and public outcry about immigrations. Etc. 

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