TRUTH SLOT
2024
45.3 * 16.7 * 0.2 inches
white birch, pigment, smoke
The work takes the slot machine as the prototype. It makes the winning moment in a flat format, revisiting the invisible and fictional power that affects the human psyche, including the game mechanism, religions, and universe myths.
It is a hodgepodge moment that pushes the viewer back to the essence of their hearts. On the body, twelve religious signs are mixed and positioned around the reward display. At the bottom screen, a monkey wearing a Sanxingdui mask, upgraded to the latest mechanical hand, points to the machine’s lever with an accelerated heartbeat in the background. At the top, a periodic solution diagram to the three-body problem presents as the signal, where three apples replace the positions of three planets.
