theo +/- Original

'theo +/-’ is an experimental film to explore the phenomena of bipolarity as a perception to self-knowledge.

The work focuses on the basic principles of Taoist cosmology, whereas two complementary extremes that constantly play against and with each other and cannot exist without the other. Aesthetically the elements are reduced in a form of sphere, conducted based on a cyclic model of universe. Metaphorically confronts various notions such as; black and white, irrational and stable, ying and yang, fusion and fission, material and spiritual.

The idea had been initiated by the artist’s experience of close family member’s death, and the birth of a new family member. The experience that happened one another led the artist to think over the explanation behind one’s existence. Recurrent scenes of a ‘bright closed room’ and a ‘dark infinite space’ indicates ‘current life’ and ‘life after death’, inextricably linked together like inside and outside. Rhythm and silence is an important factor in this work, giving a moment toward viewers to subliminally comprehend the opposing factors through their auditory sense. The repetitive rhythms indicates an oscillation of a life as a pulse, at the same time conducting artist’s version of a chant toward the predecessor.

The work seeks into a new interpretation of the eastern philosophy, to understand further into what we are and where we are heading to.