Dam the Fool
2024
Single-channel video, color, sound
34 min 14 sec
Commissioned by MACA
 

Dam the Fool portrays a post-apocalyptic world where the principles and understandings that once formed the foundation have been completely transformed. Survivors are redefining and repairing their perceptions of unfamiliar landscapes and bodies, piecing together fragments of memory. The original landscape is preserved beneath the water's surface, while events and history are rewritten into their opposites above it.

About the Artist

Zheng Yuan (b. 1988, Lanzhou) lives and works in Beijing. He received his master's degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Working primarily in time-based media, Zheng often operates at the intersection of fiction, documentary, and investigative research. His work focuses on the relationships between identity and value systems within different historical, social, and political conditions.