0.1 Second before Burnt (Project 596), 2022
40cm*30cm

These are two paintings which derive from the archival clips of China‘s 596 Project. The images depict the scenes immediately after the explosion of China's first atomic bomb. Everything is illuminated by a dazzling light, and the human eye cannot look directly. After 0.1 seconds, everything in the pictures are because of colossal energy burns and disappears.

这是两张来自596计划视频资料的绘画作品,画面描绘了中国第一颗原子弹爆炸后一瞬的场景,一切被耀眼的光芒照亮,人眼无法直视,0.1秒后,画面中的一切因为巨大的能量而燃烧消失。









Untitled (Atomic Bombs), 2019

From the research of the first succeed atomic bomb experiment “Trinity Project", the artist further explored the moving image source that was rare when the nuclear bomb exploded, and the difficulty of the simultaneous sound recording. Proceeding from this, he tried to use clips and reuse existing materials to capture the slow and strange sense of nuclear bomb explosions, attempting to express the hell-like horror created by nuclear weapons in another non-blasting way.

源自对第一颗成功的原子弹实验“Trinity “的影像研究,进而发掘核弹爆炸时珍惜的动态影像资料,以及素材影片同期声的困难。由此出发,试图通过剪辑再利用已有素材捕捉核弹爆炸时缓慢的诡异感,企图用另一种非爆破的方式表现核武器创造的地狱式恐怖。

Wu Xiaoran 2018-2022 — London / Hangzhou / Shanghai