Staff Picks
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
Yuyan Wang
2021
11 Minutes
Staff Picks
Date
July 1–30, 2022
“It’s an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that recognizes its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.” (Berlinale, 2020)
In One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, Yuyan Wang creates a visual ocean brimming with deep emotions and a feeling of uncanniness. Wang’s vibrant and colorful video juxtaposes the monotony and superficiality of current internet iconography with the unexpected thrill of rediscovering the (un)known. It reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Overall, these images may be seen as a mirror of the society of spectacle, as well as an ecological and social critique of the inexorable entropy of our information societies— groundless waves we are all together drowning in. What one hears is the question.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean is presented on e-flux Video & Film as the July 2022 edition of Staff Picks.
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