Revival of the Snake, 2005

The intense empathic reaction that Yang Fudong manages to arouse in viewers of his works is achieved thanks to a personal direction the artist calls “abstract cinema,” a definition that includes both film and video. His technique, intentionally open to experimentation more than to the definition of fixed rules, focuses on a search for images that pertain to the most private emotional realm, where profound feelings determine behavior. His search for a new form of abstraction includes the use of fragmented montage, a process that allows the artist to construct and literally deconstruct his stories before the viewer’s eyes. [...]