Enclosure

Gu Xiong. An installation and exhibition commemorating China's June '89 massacre at Tianneman Square.

Enclosure = A Statement

Because disturbance exists for humans,

they make many enclosures for themselves.

It becomes an emblem of their culture 

and an emblem of isolation and opression.

Confront the Great Wall, the Paris Bastille Wall and the Berlin Wall:

we understand the isolation between humanity and nature,

one people and another people, the person and the self.

Confront the Tiananmen Square;

we are amazed at this tragedy:

humanity trying to break down the "enclosure".

We see some of these enclosures but we can't see most of them;

they are so common, they become invisuvle.

Even if we can break through the enclosures that we see,

we are still not altogether free,

because many enclosures are within our selves.

This puzzle belongs to the human mind and body.

I hope thato ne day people can discard these "Enclosures"

- the ones that are inside and outside - 

to better comprehend and to awaken the link between

humanity and nature, one people and another people,

ther person and his or her self. 

                                                       Gu Xiong, 1991