畫家Vivian Greven在其位於杜塞爾多夫的工作室裏說：「我感覺我的身體從來都不一樣。它總是處於變化；早上我的身體可能有些僵硬，但當我起床擁抱我的兒子時，我的身體就突然變得舒展起來，與另一個生命融為一體。」Greven的畫作將古典形式與數碼美學結合，探討親密與斷離、神話與蛻變。她的大型作品以平滑、絢麗的色彩表現出支離破碎的人物形象，畫面中的斷裂看起來像是技術故障。 這些圖像具有永恆的特質，但都是關於過渡中的身體，通常捕捉的是碰觸或連接前的瞬間。

然而，Greven畫筆下人物光潔的身體卻讓人感覺無法碰觸。她認為這些人物是「化身」，他們的完美源自古老的審美理想及螢幕形象。然而，Greven的作品並不是數碼作品，她也並非以數碼工具來製作這些作品。她說：「我非常喜歡通過繪畫讓它們重獲實體感的想法，當畫筆真正劃過畫布才可以真正感受並明白：哦，這是真正成形而非僅是一個螢幕上的形象。」最終，Greven以繪畫的方式將身體還給了觀眾。她的油畫作品揭示了皮膚下不同的深度，而這層皮膚是通過日積月累、精雕細琢的筆觸描繪而成的。從肉體到石頭，從圖元到繪畫，我們最終回到了初始之地：一個身體和另一個身體的相遇。

Nauman’s constant pursuit of disintegrating artistic norms, definitions, styles, and categories makes the study of his oeuvre especially meaningful now. In contrast to the era when Nauman was first active, art today has become highly commodified, driven by a necessity for unambiguous styling and marketing. Too often it is a stylized, commercialized entity that endlessly disseminates itself on social media, yet fails to inspire trust. In the competition for the views and likes that dictate capitalist pageantry, art also tends to excessively focus on immersive experiences that serve no specific purpose, turning itself into a spectacle. Worse, in a society that perceives itself through digital and information technologies, direct contact with physicality and tangible reality are becoming increasingly scarce. This change not only dulls the senses, but also severely diminishes the experiences of art and art-making.

Nauman’s work, in contrast, manages to be rooted in contemporary life while questioning and experimenting with the human condition and linguistic behaviors. By maintaining a sensitivity and perceptivity towards emotions and the surrounding environment, the artist imbues time and space with a sense of poetry. This in turn prompts us to critically engage with everyday life, indisputably demonstrating the importance of art to connect with the present moment, with physical contact and tangible experiences. Only through this connectivity can art create new forms of consciousness. Given this perspective, the artist’s seemingly endless loops are open-ended reminders that a sense of self offers perpetual possibility as much as the capacity for criticality in continuing to meet the moment as contemporary life endlessly changes and evolves.