RUNZE FENG​

Each piano embodies uniquely inscribed memories through the craftsman's hands. How may we awaken the slumbering remembrance within? When memory exists neither as purely dynamic flow nor absolute static fragment — as Aby Warburg proclaims: "Matter is a condensed temporal vessel; memory reconstructs the past through eternal oscillation" (Warburg, Der Bilderatlas MNEMOSYNE, 1927) — this artwork congeals the process of piano deconstruction (or synthesis) into an archaeological section of memory: imploded hammer assemblies, hovering resonators and interlaced string grids manifest within a static field the intrinsic stratification (Schichtung) and bidirectional tension of remembrance — simultaneously a fragmented past collapsing into shards and a prophecy reassembling the future.