The Tail Learns the March
2026
754 × 841 × 1189 mm
snare drum, image-processed tourist promotional image of a well-known historic landmark, faux fur fox tail, motor, marching drum harness, stickers

photo credit ：Tiderip

The floor image is taken from a familiar online tourism shot of a well-known London landmark. I pulled it wide, slipped sections out of register, and cut it into fragments, so it starts to behave like a monument that can’t hold itself together. As the edits accumulate, the image loses its grand, elevated charge.

On top of this ground I placed a snare drum. From inside the shell, a faux fox tail emerges and begins to move, striking up and down. I think of foxes as animals that keep to cover, threading through shadows and skirting the edges; they are even less likely to appear loudly within a royal zone. The fox points to a way of getting through crisis: staying nimble, finding openings, continuing on. It carries a post-apocalyptic kind of optimism, no heroic promise, just persistence built from small gestures and bodily trickery, a method for living in a world that is steadily becoming harder to inhabit. The tail’s comic bounce cuts into the scene with a flippant rhythm, like a badly timed joke, needling at the arrangements and hierarchies that once looked secure.


地面上的图像来自网络上一张伦敦某处经典的旅游宣传照，它是一处著名地标。使用图像编辑软件对这张照片进行拉伸、错位，切割处理，让它呈现为一种不稳定的纪念性场景，随着对图像的处理，崇高感似乎被削弱了。

放置了一只军鼓在图像上方，一根人造狐狸尾巴从鼓腔内部伸出并开始运动，上下敲打。我想到狐狸习惯隐藏，总在阴影和边缘处穿行，它们更不可能在皇室区域内高调现身。狐狸指向一种在危机中仍能周旋、延续生命的姿态，这种姿态是对一个逐渐变得难以栖居的世界的策略性回应。它的乐观带着后末世的意味，不以宏大叙事宣告希望，却用身体的机巧和微小的动作维持可能性。那根幽默的尾巴以轻佻的节奏介入，像一次不合时宜的玩笑，撬动并扰乱原本稳固的关系与秩序。