nguyen_duy_manh

The centerpiece of this phantasmagorical feast is the severed head of a qilin—the guardian beast for prosperity in East Asian mythologies—now served half-flayed and white-eyed with disbelief. These ceramic cadavers thus transform into metaphors for his anguish at the commodification and consumption of forlorn craftsmanship and artistic creativity by neoliberal structures of capitalism.