2010Sculpture
Lernaean Strouthion
Bronze sculpture. Shanghai World Expo, Jing An Sculpture Park, 2010.
A monumental bronze sculpture. The title combines two sources: the Lernaean Hydra of Greek mythology — the creature that grows two heads for every one removed, a problem that compounds rather than resolves — and strouthion, Greek for ostrich, an animal whose relationship to visibility is the subject of its own mythology.
The resulting form is a chimera: a hybrid that cannot be assigned to a single origin, a single taxonomy, or a single reading. In 2010, the year of the work's exhibition, the question of what constitutes a coherent identity online — assembled from fragments, platforms, personas, and contradictory data points — had no settled answer. It still does not.
Exhibited at the Shanghai World Expo, Jing An Sculpture Park, 2010, alongside works by Gao Brothers, Jan Fabre, and Wim Delvoye.
Bronze. Shanghai World Expo, Jing An Sculpture Park, 2010.
The resulting form is a chimera: a hybrid that cannot be assigned to a single origin, a single taxonomy, or a single reading. In 2010, the year of the work's exhibition, the question of what constitutes a coherent identity online — assembled from fragments, platforms, personas, and contradictory data points — had no settled answer. It still does not.
Exhibited at the Shanghai World Expo, Jing An Sculpture Park, 2010, alongside works by Gao Brothers, Jan Fabre, and Wim Delvoye.
Bronze. Shanghai World Expo, Jing An Sculpture Park, 2010.