忧郁 I
Melencolia I


Installatiob series
2022





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Exhibition View of Melencolia I








Egger bigger
Metal, prints, plastic paper
31*30cm

2022

         





Princess Scale  					Maoyu Mao, 2022 Aluminium, iron, steel, waxed wire, stoneVariable size






Princess Scale* detail 01   Princess Scale* detail 02






Princess Scale* detail 03   



 Princess Scale* detail 04
Princess Scale 
Aluminium, iron, steel, waxed wire, stone
Variable size

2022







Sudoku  					 Maoyu Mao, 2022 Stone, wood
Sudoku 
Stone, wood

2022





Ice Blade Escape  							Maoyu Mao, 2022 Steel60*2cm
Ice Blade Escape 
Steel 
60*2cm

2022






White Night 35 
Steel, cotton thread, wax, lime powder, paper, mineral pigments, iron absorbers 
20.5*27cm

2022








Reading 'Star ethics'  							Maoyu Mao, 2022Wood, metal, fishing line, motor, wheel bone cover, powder Variable sizeReading 'Star ethics' *detail 01Reading 'Star ethics' *detail 02Reading 'Star ethics' *detail 03
Reading 'Star ethics' 
Wood, metal, fishing line, motor, wheel bone cover
Power Installation, Variable size

2022







Egger biggest  					Maoyu Mao, 2022Metal, prints, plastic paper 38*25cm
Egger biggest
Metal, prints, plastic paper
38*25cm

2022






White Night 34  					Maoyu Mao, 2022Steel, cotton thread, wax, lime powder, paper, mineral pigments, iron absorbers, magnet 135*125cm



White Night 34 
Steel, cotton thread, wax, lime powder, paper, mineral pigments, iron absorbers, magnet
135*125cm

2022







Others experience the mystery of 'life on the border' in a profound way. They are never explicitly here or there. They live in no human's land. Melancholy is the anxiety of a person who feels close to the infinite, but also ecstatic and threatening at the same time. To be a "living frontier" becomes the meaning of life.

Again, this vague guidance drives this work. The direction of movement is determined by chance, the content of thought by complex emotions, the core of which comes from a rich experience of experience and an intention to constantly reconfigure the relationship with the material world. The discovered objects are divorced from their fixed shapes and mysterious historical features. But in this deliberate movement of 'renaming', they attempt to detach themselves from their original meaning and regain ownership. Or it could be described as: some mysterious signs, unknown letters, foreign words. The metaphorical dimension of melancholy: they do not only point to themselves, they also suggest a lack (love object lost) and, more importantly, make something else visible in this gesture - a gesture that gradually becomes clear in Dürer's masterpiece "Melancholy III ".










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