...
Willing To Be Vulnerable – Metalized Balloon (2015-16) is a 17-meter-long sculpture evoking the Hindenburg Zeppelin and referencing its disaster in 1937. The work is both ambitious and optimistic, reflecting technical failure, fragmentation and destruction, and crucially the underlying tensions that are inherent to all attempts at utopian idealism.
...
https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropiusbau/programm/2018/lee-bul/editorial/einfuehrung.html (30.01.2022)
Entering the exhibition, you first have to pick your way through Korean artist Lee Bul’s installation Willing To Be Vulnerable (2015–16), which projects a future that is simultaneously heroic and defeated. Striped canvases depicting headless figures on unicycles hang from the ceiling and collapse in heaps around the site, like the scene of an apocalyptic circus. In these end times, a silver airship and blinking hot-air balloon, however, are still defiantly afloat.
...
https://artreview.com/summer-2016-review-sydney-biennale/ (10.11.2020)