Navigate a Life was exhibited as part of SSG’s solo exhibition, Is the Fake Real? at the Yunling Art Centre, Chongqing (2024). The inflatable work, accompanied by the sound of the sea, reflects on how we navigate the boundary between illusion and reality—where containment, reflection, and play merge into a single, drifting experience.
A shark-like mirrored fin drifts in a pool of monochrome balls, capturing the world in its oblique reflections that transport the viewer to the liminal space between land and sea, where the ceaseless sound of waves breaking on the shore lingers in the air.
Our lives are like swimming pools—closed containers, safe spaces in which we encounter the world. We drift within them, deluded in a sea of endless bubbles that are mere reflections on the walls of a cave. Like a bot, these mirrored surfaces draw us into their depths, where we drift endlessly in playful bliss. This is the soft interior, not of the fake killer machine, but of the playful shark that glides in the pool, oblivious to all that surrounds it—the world of the soft, reflective interior of the inner shark.
Navigate a Life was exhibited as part of SSG’s solo exhibition, Is the Fake Real? at the Yunling Art Centre, Chongqing (2024). The inflatable work, accompanied by the sound of the sea, reflects on how we navigate the boundary between illusion and reality—where containment, reflection, and play merge into a single, drifting experience.
