Curatorial note:
In No Return from Babel, a solitary figure slumps on a golden throne, hunched and hooded, as if bearing the weight of unspeakable knowledge. Behind him, the Tower of Babel leans in ruin—once a monument to human ambition, now a relic of collapse. A winged megaphone—a recurring emblem of ideological broadcast—soars ominously across the night sky, part bird, part surveillance drone. The composition unfolds over a textured, desolate ground, scratched and weathered like an ancient manuscript. Here, He Gong conjures a geography of aftermath: political, spiritual, and linguistic. The golden throne, at once regal and funereal, suggests that power has become a burden, and meaning itself a casualty. In this painting, silence is not peace—it is exile from communion. The affective atmosphere is one of estrangement and reckoning, a meditation on the ruins left behind when empires of language and ideology fall.

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