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Zhou Xiaohu 周嘯虎
Nursery Rhyme 童謠
2001
Nursery Rhyme depicts a group of children engaging in old-fashioned games like cat’s cradle, musical chairs, ring a ring o’ rosie, and play fighting. In an outdoor playground, the group forms a circle to play a game of telephone, in which one child whispers, ‘what will our future be?’ into their neighbour’s ear. As the game continues, the original message is distorted to ‘God knows what our world will be’ and ‘tomorrow will be the same as today’. The images also become increasingly sinister—a doll smashes into pieces while a child rearranges toy warplanes to the soundtrack of gunfire. In Zhou Xiaohu’s video, childhood innocence is tinged with sadness and anxiety, and the adult world is ever present.
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