Kan Xuan

In "Object "(2003), a black and white video, objects are dropped into the water to create a slowed down and pictorial effect, juxtaposed to a voice-over that indicates the colour that is revealed between the grey shades of black and white, “cheese is grey, coffee is black, sugar is white...”, triggering curiosity in the observer who recalls in his thoughts the memory of their real colour.

"Object" by Kan Xuan is a silent claim from a young woman, lonely and helplessly facing such a precarious world. Apparently fragile and delicate, this work is a powerful resistance to the real. In it, she constructs a kind of labyrinth of light and sound that entices the visitors to enter a mysterious world in which one is surprised by alchemical moments of gazes on the everyday.

It is an extraordinary aesthetic and concise narration that develops through a deep philosophical observation, describing the detachment between human consciousness, name and being, recalling the Taoist concepts of the philosopher Zhuangzi and his texts on the nature of illusion.