Stroy

Merry-go-round

The work Merry-Go-Round (2012) rotates on the high pedestal, and it looks a lot like lighthouse. The merry-go-round at CHOE’s childhood experience is fantastic and exciting from a distance, but you would find that it is actually very boring when you ride it. Nonetheless, the emotions created from it are always attractive and it stimulates the desire for riding it. CHOE compare it to our society. The social system looks fantastic from a distance and stimulates the desire to be part in, however it is boring when you are actually in. Nevertheless, we strive not to fall from it once we enter. CHOE made the rotating horse to express it, and increased the rotation speed until the cluster of light only becomes visible. The beautiful background music, which exuded happiness when it rotated slowly at first, goes faster until it turns to be strange sound. For him, the horse in the Merry-Go-Round is also the subject of alienation that looks miserable. We cannot find any horse with happy face. The back of horses in pretty adornment is pierced by long iron sticks, so they seem to be screaming.