Allora & Calzadilla, Breaking into Trunks, 2017 (still). Duration: 13min24s.
Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to present the film Breaking into Trunks (2017) by Allora & Calzadilla at Nanjing Art Fair International.
The film shows the process of a 250-year-old tone-wood tree being cut down on the last autumn full moon of 2016, the moment when the sap-level is at its lowest, the wood the driest, and the acoustic properties the best.
The voiceover recounts parts of a short story attributed to the late 4th century BC Daoist philosopher, Zhuangzi, titled Breaking into Trunks which contemplates the nature of wisdom and its effects on the ordering of the world.
The text’s strong resonance with today's political climate, paired with the image and sound, lends the whole film an allegorical character.
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