Aleph Behind the Door

Date: 2021
Medium: NFT, Single channel digital videos
Size: 9: 16, 1080×1920dpi
Duration: 10” , 1 ’32”

This work is the artist's response to the "metaverse". The work is divided into two parts, and viewers can unlock and watch the content behind the door in the online exhibition by holding tickets to the artist's another series of works "Welcome to the Art World".

The title of the work comes from the collection of short stories "El Aleph" published by Borges in 1949. "The Aleph's diameter is approximately two or three centimeters, but the entire universe is contained within it, and its volume has not been proportionally reduced. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In Jewish mystical philosophy, this letter refers to the infinite and pure god; it is said that its shape is a person pointing to the sky and the earth, indicating that the world below is a mirror, a map of the world above."

The emergence of the "metaverse" has turned the fantasy that only existed in magical realism into a reality in technology. The Aleph behind the door, seen today, is the Aleph on the screen, and through the screen, everyone can immerse themselves in a parallel world.

This set of works was auctioned on the NFT trading platform MetaOpus for 2.98 ETH on September 14, 2021.

门后的阿莱夫

形式:NFT,单频道数字影像(2个)
尺寸:9: 16, 1080×1920dpi
时长:10秒,1分32秒


该作品为艺术家对“元宇宙”的回应。作品分为两部分,观众可以通过持有艺术家的另一系列作品《欢迎进入艺术圈》的门票,在线上展览中解锁并观看门后的内容。

作品题目取自博尔赫斯在1949年出版的小说集《阿莱夫》。“阿莱夫的直径大约为两三厘米,但宇宙空间都保罗其中,体积没有按比例缩小。阿莱夫是希伯来语字母表的第一个字母。在犹太神秘哲学中,这个字母指无限的、纯真的神明;据说它的形状是一个指天指地的人,说明下面的世界是一面镜子,是上面世界的地图。”

“元宇宙”的出现,将只存在魔幻现实主义中的幻想,变成了现实生活中的技术。门后的阿莱夫,在今天看来即是屏幕里的阿莱夫,透过屏幕,每个人都可以沉浸在平行世界中。

此套作品于2021年9月14日在NFT交易平台MetaOpus以2.98ETH拍卖价格成交。