Mount Hua (华山) is a trilogy of works exploring the myth of China’s most famous sacred mountain. At once an object of contemplation, a Taoist spiritual symbol and a battlefield for wushu masters, Mount Hua has for millennia been a catalyst for the ambitions and fears of those who admire it. As a child of the asphalt and an uprooted immigrant in search of integration, my Mount Huas are made of concrete, glass and steel, impregnable bureaucratic megaliths that I have to conquer by sheer force of will. Where Nietzsche gazes into the abyss, I gaze up at the peaks until the peaks in turn gaze down on me. The peaks or the penthouses.
Mont Hua – 华山 I, II & III (2024)
120x40cm
Carbon, concrete and acrylic on Wenzhou paper and Dibond
