00 Zhang
2026

167*190*280cm
Acrylic, resin,Plexiglas, serial display, cement,fiberglass, busbar, electric motor, gear reducer, conductor rail, carbon brush, controller, sliding rail, stainless steel, counter

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ᴄᴀᴛᴀʟʏꜱᴛ: 𝟢𝟢 ᴢʜᴀɴɢ

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Time acts as a catalyst—setting systems in motion, provoking transformation, sustaining life. The work constructs a subject continuously reconfigured through the intersecting systems of age, migration, education, and platform culture.

Artist’s DNA are translated into parameters that generate the installation’s movement. Along a circular rail, clock-like modules operate as a temporal mechanism. As the system approaches 2026, it automatically resets to 2025, 2024, and 2023. Across multiple screens, twelve years of artistic practice are compressed into a mechanically replayable archive. Each sequence ends with a synchronized countdown before dissolving into a field of scrolling DNA data, returning the work to its point of origin. Like a game engine restoring a saved state, the installation performs an endless cycle in which biological inheritance, social identity, and historical conditions remain inescapable.

Catalyst reflecting the artist Suspended between two competing temporal regimes—one shaped by East Asian social structures, the other by the economies of online creative production. Temporalities—biological, social, and machinic—operate simultaneously yet remain fundamentally asynchronous. Their persistent misalignment forms the central logic of the installation, where time functions not as a measure of progress but as a technology of recursive control.

As part of the Replica Series, the work extends an ongoing investigation into the body as an informational system and the subject as a computational construct.
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Commission by Mud Gallery