Synopsis
Within an unstable structure composed of women’s skulls, hands of will, a claw machine microcosm, and a ping-pong table, the “White Panda Man” at the top of the structure is manipulating the movement of the ping-pong ball. Accompanying the fall of the ping-pong ball, the “Pink Panda Man”, symbolizing the individual, begins to shed clothes, disintegrate, and reassemble in another illusion. The “Pink Panda Man” falls within the collective illusion, triggering a deeper collective collapse, and ultimately overlaps with the image of the ping-pong ball, becoming an eternally surveilled participant in a cycle of rebirth.
Ding Ning
Ding Ning, born in 1992 in Henan, is an artist and independent animation director. He graduated with a master's degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2018. His animation, THE FALL, won the Jury's Choice Award at the China Independent Animation Film Festival in 2015. In 2020, he was selected for the Young Artist Discovery Award by the China Art Rights List. Ding Ning's work explores the fate and possibilities of the individual in the era.
Director's statement
PING PONG has constructed an infinitely looping world, with its creative inspiration stemming from the individual destinies under the pressures and will of contemporary society. The entire piece can be segmented into three conceptual aspects: “Architecture” “Collectivity” and “Fall”.
