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Installation Record
Nine Lives
Shi Jinsong
- Artist
- Shi Jinsong
- Title
- Nine Lives
- Year
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 26 × 13 × 12 cm
- Format
- Installation
- Copyright
- © Shi Jinsong
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Look With This WorkAn armored soul for a new world
The work imagines a cat in armor, removing the soft body and leaving a hard, shining shell. As protection intensifies, the cat becomes a symbol of force and transformation, continuing the artist's thinking about matter, survival, and changing worlds.
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