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Video Art Record
Chocolate Trilogy
Xiao Wenjun
- Artist
- Xiao Wenjun
- Title
- Chocolate Trilogy
- Year
- 2013
- Medium
- Single-channel video
- Duration
- 5 min 37 sec
- Format
- Video Art
- Collection
- DO2ON Garden Collection
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Chocolate often appears as a familiar symbol of love, desire, and sweetness. Xiao Wenjun treats this material differently, allowing it to melt on or with the body. The work moves love away from advertising language and turns it into a physical process: softening, staining, dissolving, and disappearing.
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