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GENG DAYOU 耿大有
b. 1998, works and lives in Shanghai
GENG DAYOU 耿大有
2024
installation
Carbonized New Zealand pine, traditional cinnabar, wenge wood, spray paint
12(H)*65*65cm | Base 8*65*65cm | Spinning top 4.4*2.2*2.2cm
Edition of 3 + 1AP
GDY_8543

As an artifact persisting from antiquity to the present, the spinning top embodies humanity's eternal obsession with the "continuity" of motion, materializing time itself. Along its periphery, an array of logical symbols representing rational thought is engraved. When the rotation gradually ceases, these meticulously arranged signs ultimately point to entirely random orientations. The carbonized wood grain at its base, the disintegrating apex, and the rotating body saturated with rational symbology collectively foreshadow the fragility of our logical worldview under temporal accumulation. It perpetually undergoes cyclic rituals of spinning, friction, and scorching, until this seemingly perpetual motion cleaves into duality, transforming into another form of eternity—just as we remain incapable of foreseeing the final answer suspended at time's terminus.

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Related Exhibitions:
ART021 BEIJING MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, Art Fairs 798-751 Park Seven Nine Tank, Beijing 05.22, 2025 -05.25, 2025



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