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Ants（蚁）

A group of hand-formed black and silver wire ants carry walnuts across a concrete gallery floor beside a white wall.

Wire and walnuts, dimensions variable, 2024 — a fragile procession turns weight, cooperation, and persistence into a collective choreography.

Wire ants carrying walnuts form a procession along a white gallery wall and concrete floor.
Installation view
Overhead view of wire ants and walnuts moving across a concrete gallery floor.
Overhead view
Close view of a black wire ant carrying a walnut across a wooden surface.
Detail
Close view of silver and black wire ants beside a walnut, showing their hand-twisted joints.
Detail

A procession of hand-formed wire bodies carries walnuts across the floor. Enlarging a nearly invisible social choreography, the work turns weight, cooperation, and persistence into a fragile comic monument.

By using a humble food object as both burden and body, Ants asks when labour becomes collective intelligence—and when survival begins to resemble ritual.

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