"Our Brave Discovery" (我们勇敢的发现) by Liu Dao

TFT, oil painting, media player, teakwood frame

TFT显示，油画，多媒体播放器，柚木框

48(W)×67(H)×7(D) cm

Foreign visitors are often surprised when they encounter the strange state of religion in China. Buddisim and Taoism make up the majority of the religious population, but most Chinese adhere to a sort of quasi-folklore/traditionalist practice. This belief system is made up of numerous shen, a word loosely translating to "gods", "spirits", "awareness”, something along these lines. Essentially these are considered to be the energies that produce and move the material world around us. Some of these ideas seem so strange to outsiders but I guess so do all religious beliefs (or beliefs in general for that matter) to those looking in from the outside. The artists wanted to make a piece that would express this condition, the idea that everyone’s reality is perhaps truly just theirs alone. 

外国游客常常吃惊于中国奇怪的信仰现状。尽管佛教和道教是主流，但大多数中国人坚持的则是一些民间守旧的行为。这是由无数的“神”构成的信仰系统，可以粗略翻译为“上帝”，“精神”，“意识”，等等类似的概念。本质上它们是一种能量，生发和操纵着我们所在的物质世界。对于旁观者而言似乎有些难以接受，不过当你以局外人的眼光看待所有的宗教信仰，一般都会存在这样的情况。六岛想通过这件作品表明：每一个人眼中的现实都是如此不同，所谓的真实，或许仅仅只属于你自己。

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