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Corporeal Aesthetics: Hand with Violin（躯体美学｜手与小提琴）

A pale sculptural hand holds the neck of a warm brown violin, posed against a muted blue background.

Sculptural hand and violin, 2022 — a musician’s gesture remains after the living performer and the sound have disappeared.

Close view of a pale sculptural hand pressing the violin fingerboard.
Gesture study
Detailed view of the sculptural hand and its fingers resting on the violin strings.
Detail
The violin and sculptural hand displayed upright on a working studio table.
Studio view
Installation view of the violin held by a sculptural hand beside a studio window.
Installation view

A sculptural hand rests on the fingerboard of a violin, holding the exact shape of a gesture without producing sound. The work separates bodily memory from the living performer: technique remains, while agency, touch, and music are suspended.

The hand becomes both prosthesis and portrait—an object that remembers an absent player.

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