Project

Signals from Heaven,Signals from Heaven. （有神的信号，有神的信号。）

In the present exhibition, the artist displays nine “spiritu-al,” box-like little cabins that he brought back from Nangqian and Ganzi. ZhaoYao brought these very simple cabins into the exhibition room . The stories presented in each cabin are extracted from online TED talks dating from 2006 to nowadays. The artist has turned these talks into very personal monologues. Their contents revolve around themes of war, the self, education, identity, race, the sense of ceremony, and other issues that confront mankind in its entirety. As these self-presentations, rooted in individual experience, undergo a process of artistic editing, they come to form a new text and to constitute a new collectiveness in the exhibition hall.