2018
Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
If the End Precedes the Beginning” draws from the phrase in T.S. Elliot’s Four Quartets, “ ... or say that the end precedes the beginning, and the end and the beginning were always there, before the beginning and after the end. ” Taking personal experience and memories as a point of departure, Jiang Zhuyun takes the retinal movements of his reading as a visual copy of the original text, to project his personal interpretations on order and pause, hindrance and feedback.
poster by artist
The End Precedes the Beginning
2018
Installation
C# Costom-made Software
Computer x4, Single-axis linear module 1m x4, Monitor,text by Needle printer x4,
In this work, the artist uses a eye tracking system to record the movement of his eyes when reading the poem Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, and maps it onto four one-meter long modules, as each module correspond to one chapter of the poem. With contemplative pauses, troubled repetitions, and excited leaps, The moving machines and the personal experience from the artist construct a unique tense relationship. T.S. Eliot believes that Incarnation provides the most essential ground for the way human experience time, and here, the machines have become the vessels that contains the experience of time from the artist.
2018
Installation
Processing/GazeTrack
Tobii/Monitor/Monitor Rack
GitHub
In a total range of 1024x720 pixels on a monitor screen, the audiences can use the movement of their own eyes to peek through partials of the entire picture. This work uses the gaze fixed on a certain part as a point of reference, which reveals the imagination of the parts unseen.