This piece of work is from CHANG Ling’s Illusion Society series. Illusion Society is a continuation of CHANG Ling’s preoccupation with society’s realities, while also representing a deepening of exploration into such realities – an epochal illusion borne of CHANG Ling’s accumulated emotions and memories.

Through the Illusion Society series, CHANG Ling raises and practices “precision” in art. He encourages creators to abandon the constraints of logic, to view art as an externalization of the spiritual and an unveiling of emotion.

Although it is filled with grotesquery and abstraction, Illusion Society is grounded in a dialogue and critique of real social issues, as is consistent with CHANG Ling’s body of work. In “A Chandelier”, CHANG Ling plays a game of colors. The bright chandelier and the dark surrounds seem to rend as they meld, muddying the relationship between power and freedom.

该作品出自常陵《大玄玄社会》系列。“大玄玄社会” 延续了常陵对社会现实的关照，但这类现实更加内化而深入，是常陵用情感和记忆堆砌而成的时代幻像。

在“大玄玄社会”系列的创作中，常陵提出并践行艺术的 “恰恰” 精神。他鼓励创作者摒弃逻辑的束缚，仅仅将作品看做是自身情感的流露和精神世界的外化。

虽然充斥着怪诞和抽象的元素，“大⽞玄社会” 却并不不完全是凭空建构，对真实社会议题的探讨与控诉是它的地基，也是常陵创作的一贯出发点。在 “一盏吊灯”里，常陵更是玩起了色彩游戏，吊灯的明亮与周遭环境的⿊暗既似撕扯又似融合，权力与自由的关系在此变得暧昧不清。