Vipassanā · Conceptual Performance / Ink-as-Action / Meditation Archive
4 December 2025 — 10 January 2026
Disenchantment
- Dimensions
- 50 × 35 cm
8 of 19
Picture Story
Nibbidā is not with the world, but with the definitions of the world.
Disenchantment is the stripping of the objet petit a — discovering that desire's object was only a stopgap of the Symbolic, while the Real flickers hollow beneath.
Project Story
From 4 December 2025 to 10 January 2026, the artist Lao Mu undertook a forty-one-day intensive Vipassanā retreat at Wat Jong Thong (宗通寺) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Throughout the retreat, painting served as an action-record, leaving traces of movement on a 35 cm × 50 m raw xuan paper scroll.
《Zongtong Temple》 is the extreme meeting of conceptual performance and the ink tradition. Between observer and observed exists an angle — that is the 'who am I?' The forty-one days were not a search for an answer, but time's material sedimentation: letting the question surface on its own.