在我腹腔中暴动的巨象 The rampaging elephant in my abdomen 王悦辰 Wang Yuechen

2025 March Artist-in-Residence Event

Residency Works Open Day

Wang Yuechen

The rampaging elephant in my abdomen

March 29 (Saturday) 16:00, 2025

前言 Introduction

在本次驻地项目中，王悦辰探索了语言与进食行为如何塑造个体对身体与认知。

语言作为一种社会化的符号系统，不仅是表意的工具，更是一种权力机制，能够定义身体、塑造自我认知，并控制身体的边界与形态；通过语言，个体进入社会，定义自我，同时也承载着外界对其身份的塑造。而进食，则作为一种原始欲望的具象表现，超越了语言的符号化，它代表着身体的直接掌控，是原始欲望对身体形态与个体存在的操控。

蛇的舌尖吐出语言，细密地编织着虚构与象征；而进食则是吞噬的欲望，将庞大的象贪婪地吞下。

通过影像、装置与文本，王悦辰试图将身体作为文明、身份、符号与原始欲望之间冲突的载体，在这里，语言与进食构建了一个充满张力和变动的空间，身体在每一次吞咽与言说之间的冲突与张力中扩展、崩解、重构，模糊界限，进入了一个无法回望的深渊。在这场与自我的对话中，蛇腹中象的暴动无声无息，却无处不在。

这是一个言语与欲望的剧场。镜面在此不仅是反射工具，也作为语言应验的祭坛，那些音节从喉咙滑落又凝结成块，上演着词语赋形的炼金术。

In this residency project, Wang Yuechen explored how language and eating behavior shape an individual’s relationship with their body and cognition.

Language, as a socialized symbolic system, is a tool for expression and a mechanism of power. It can define the body, shape self-awareness, and control the boundaries and forms of the body. Through language, individuals enter society, represent themselves, and simultaneously bear the weight of external forces shaping their identity. Eating, as a tangible manifestation of primal desire, goes beyond the symbolism of language; it represents direct control over the body and is the manipulation of the body’s form and the individual’s existence by primal desires.

The tip of the serpent’s tongue spits out language, intricately weaving fiction and symbolism, while eating is the desire to devour, greedily swallowing the massive elephant.

Through images, installations, and texts, Yuechen attempts to portray the body as a vessel for the conflict between civilization, identity, symbols, and primal desires. Here, language and eating create a space full of tension and flux. The body expands, collapses, and reconstructs in the conflict and tension between each act of swallowing and speaking, blurring boundaries and entering an abyss from which one cannot be turned back. In this dialogue with the self, the rampaging elephant in the snake’s belly is silent yet omnipresent.

This is a theater of language and desire. The mirror here is not only a tool of reflection but also an altar for the fulfillment of language, where those syllables slide from the throat and concrete into lumps, performing the alchemy of words giving form.