Shocking Dreams in the Circus

10 minutes | 2024 | Animation | Silent | English and Chinese subtitles

Shocking Dreams in the Circus is an animation composed of oil paintings. Faced with an infinitely vast reality and an infinitely deep space-time, human history is extremely small. Reality and history are no longer real and are on the verge of collapse. Especially with the global viral catastrophe of the last few years, the human world has instantly become a circus-like situation. For any human life, tomorrow is a projection of today, and today is a projection of yesterday, constantly going back and forth between the source and the end of life. Which moment is the true self? It would seem that time and space are only the shadows of the shadows of the shadows. In the vastness of space and time, all meaning is lost, there is no certainty…Only the wordless letter in the animation is the whole truth!

SUN Xun was born in 1980 in Fuxin in Liaoning province, China. He graduated in 2005 from the Print-making Department of the China Academy of Art. In 2006 he established π Animation Studio. He currently lives and works in Beijing. The works of Sun Xun are mainly drawing and/or animation. Sun Xun also exhibits his individual cell drawings and other mixed media works, oftentimes alongside his videos. Sun Xun’s personal visual language consists of metaphoric imagery, dark and intense hand drawing, and dreamy narrative.