Auf 1969

1969 年是中国的鸡年，鸡是我父母的生肖。在作品中“斗鸡”的符号被我用作于对中国九十年代下半叶社会面貌的隐喻：充满生机，充满竞争。童年时期经历过的家庭分离，城市家庭迅速增长的的离婚率，正印证了那个时期中国从改革开放走向市场经济时传统的父权家庭结构的瓦解过程。过去充满包容性的传统社会主义家庭空间，在住房私有化以后逐渐变为了抽象的符码；现代婚姻法的普及让家庭居所成为了财产谈判砝码。
这个作品呈现比较戏剧性的方式呈现一个斗鸡的场面，但因现代社会中的竞争早已不是从头破血流的拳击赛转变为比拼速度的田径赛，两只鸡只能无止境地冲向前方，但它们终究只能在这二亩三分地上原地踏步。

1969 was the Chinese Year of the Rooster, the Chinese zodiac sign for my parents. The symbol of "fighting chicken" in the work is used by me as a metaphor for the social landscape of China in the second half of the 1990s: full of vitality and competition. The family separation experienced in hildhood and the rapidly increasing divorce rate of urban families are evidence of the disintegration of the traditional patriarchal family structure as China moved from reform and opening up to the market economy at that period. The traditional socialist family space, full of inclusiveness in the past, has gradually become an abstract code after the privatization of housing. The spread of modern marriage laws has made the family home a bargaining chip in property negotiations.
This work presents a scene of cockfighting in a more dramatic way, but because the competition in modern society has long been transformed from a head-breaking boxing match to a speed ompetition, the two chickens can only rush to the front endlessly, but they can only stay in place on
this inch of land.