The site we chose was along the west bund of Huangpu River, specifically Xuhui Riverside Greenbelt. It is a place where highly connected with the urban city, but could be also regarded as somewhere to escape from the concrete. It is a paradox in combining technology and nature which triggered our thinking towards what we have done right or wrong in shaping the city.
Below are photos and videos we took.
Some Cyberpunk elements, natural elements and modern metalish elements gave us great inspirations. We humans want to create a paradise in industrialized city, but are what we doing right? Are we just seem to be trapped ourslves in the dream and ignoring the essence of life? Unban city itself is a place where peace contains chaos, is our desicion going on the right path or the wrong one? What seem to be true is false, and what seem to be false is true.
In this case, we choose quote 9.
“In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.” Are we doing the right things to make the world a better place?
We create a double-sided tunnel, one head leading to a screen playing video, elaborating on the truth of life and time, the other head lead to the broken roads, invisioned into our fragile world. It seems that we use our hands to support everthing firmly, but always comes to the end of collapse.
The damaged road represents the fractured reality we traverse, whilethe neon light, an artificial and unnatural source of illumination, reflects how society oftenrelies on distorted or superficial truths to guide us. The hands supporting the roads symbolizes the forces attempting to hold up or mask this broken system.
In a topsy-turvy world, the neon light could be seen as a false illumination, creating a facade of progress while the roads (reality) are visibly deteriorating.
Our sculpture embodies this inversion, where what appears to be support (the hands and light) is actually holding up afragile, damaged reality, echoing the essence of this quote.