The project first started in 2010 in Beijing, today, Sun Xun's "Last Night" finds its completion on occasion of the artist's first solo show in Hong Kong.
Evolving around the idea and experience of the space as a 'stage' or simply an imitation of reality, the artist seeks to engage with what is around him.
Hence, his story board, or what we read in his drawings which combine messages of text and image, haunt the viewer in a dark, expressionistic atmosphere reflecting upon the human condition and this mad world. Sun Xun's reflective poems include…
"Culture is unnecessary in a ideal society."
"Why have we been defeated? Imperialism is nothing."
"Heaven belongs only to God and animals. We are all magicians."
"Animal world for the people."
Words to the wise, or wise words for the people? Sun Xun raises the curtain on a mesmerising stage in which we are bound to get lost.
Reality mingles with fiction, the passing of time and the machination of history are combined in a beautiful composition made out of simple forms. It is in this dusk zone that "Last Night" begins.