// Fish Tank //
Exhibition site
Photos & videos from @RGB_MTL in Montreal, Canada. August 2025 –
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// Fish Tank //
Moonlight hooks the entire reverse-growing lake
Every dewdrop leads to a crumbling room
When the mist rises
The lightning in the rain strikes a silver resonance with the lake’s surface //
“Fish tank” as a vessel, is a space / a scope / a process / a dialogue, and a speck of dust
Through audiovisual collection and re-creation, I constructed a new audiovisual environment for a randomly caught fish from the lake
Visual and audio samples from the same waters where the fish originated were decoded and encoded, forming electronic signals that flow, intertwine, transform, guide, and alter the entire analog or digital creative process
The aim is to place the fish in a fragmented scene filled with unknowns and complex possibilities
Until a certain “moment of awakening” when the mist clears, it will return once again to the depths of that lake
Work from 2025
Mixed materials
Size：560 × 280 × 280 × 8 mm
Video : 16′38″
“Fish Tank” is my personal independent work. In whatever form it takes, it represents my current thoughts and contemplations
Those ceaseless flows of people, those endless streams of traffic, those thoughts emerging from nowhere and drifting toward unknown destinations, and us, perpetually searching for something
Complex and fragmented information, interwoven with memories, envelops us while shifting and flowing like flashes of lightning
To me, “Fish Tank” is the silvery-white light born of this resonance
The video is divided into three parts
The first part showcases some effects of the installation
The second part simulates the first-person perspective of a fish and references a key viewpoint from Zhuangzi’s “Essay on the Equality of All Things.”
(Similar to rgbmtl exhibition in Montreal, where the CRT display shows the installation, while the broader projection wall presents the first-person perspective) I aim to use spatial adjustments to blur the boundaries between reality and dreams
The third part primarily features complex and fragmented footage, carrying the unique chaos and lack of control characteristic of analog visuals
One day, the fog will lift, and we will awaken as if from a dream—
merely a non-random random occurrence…
I hope to reference a key perspective from Zhuangzi’s “Essay on the Equality of All Things” to propel it toward broader horizons
Work from 2025
Mixed materials
Size：560 × 280 × 280 × 8 mm
Video : 16′38″