The Breeding Ground

The Breeding Ground -Families living near by water.

Acoustics, pillows, wooden skeleton, size of 250cm* 250cm* 200cm), sound installation, 2021.

To Jiayi Lu, which one was born and raised in Suzhou, it’s difficult to describe the “place” in a sound or with some soundtracks. It  must be a large number of sounds, there are mixing and impacting, to come into being a memory of the place. All about the deep sound of  this place are Non-single, there are must related to temperature, smell, intensity of light and so on. There are always changing in the torrent of time, and being eternal between destructions day by day.

The sound is apparent，this work makes story behind sound in Suzhou, the personal memory of visitors and the collective memory of Suzhou to be relative. By listening the soundtrack in the Breeding Ground， the memory will be in form in physically of visitors. The memories which come out in mind of visitors’ own are all different, but all of them with echo of the place.

To create a fictitious ambient of the uterus with soft materials. Pillows are the beginnings of dreams, are objects to give a psychological suggestion of “resting” and “staying”, it signifies backing to homeland and backing to the origin. The form of this work that’s closed and coved is like in uterus of mother, it improve save and secret conditions for imaging, memorizing, and dreaming. The veiled sounds is the listening experience of baby in uterus, to use these sounds unclearly to drop a hint of the original power to keep life, civilization and culture going on, that’s the curiosity.

The maternal-fetal is a place of the beginning of our life, and the “place” is a breeding ground of memories. The work is a symbol of beginning of life, also means “samsara”（circle）of life and memories.