My way of looking at things comes from various intellectual domains, between which a cognitive foundation of mutual connections and a thought model of mutual querying are both provided.

Through this intersecting, non-linear method, I hope to be able to discover latent things that are obscured by habit and order. Is it possible to give art a new function by this means? That is, can it, by changing people’s cognitive habits, achieve the creation of an unfamiliar world of difference? Traditionally, we can only achieve this by relying on the method of ‘off-site investigation’ similar to that of anthropology. However, nowadays the concept of ‘difference’ is not just a spatial concept, but also includes the ‘heterogeneous space’ that intellect and cognition bring to it.

（Statements by the Artist, 2008)

The concept of  The Crossroads comes from the traditional Chinese opera of the same name. The reinterpretation of the historical text allowed me to achieve a different method by which to extend my work. At the same time, how does one produce new relations with today’s society by making history a temporal dimension? In the opera The Crossroads, we saw how, by the new design of bodies and actions, the space is filled with contradictory synchronicity. To be observed, or rather, to be observed by others, the space must maintain the normal conditions of being observed (light, volume…), yet, in this action that is being observed, the actors must identify themselves as acting in darkness. In a ‘normal’ space, the bodies are divided dualistically. Guided by their opponent, they must decide their own format of performance. Two facts are juxtaposed in space: one is how the bodies are to produce reciprocal reactions in the darkness, and the other is how these reactions are to be completely observed by others. The metaphor of The Crossroads relates mainly to appearance and being hidden, to the compression of time and the overlapping of space, and not to its particular ethnic metaphorical meaning or an upholding of tradition.

(Wang Jianwei, About Dilemma -Three Way Fork in the Road, 2007[Excerpt])