installation & sculpture

Thursday, May 26, 2011

An Unanticipated Moment of Being – Esperanza Martell 生命中不意期的机遇 – 娥斯柏兰扎。马特尔

综合媒材
mixed media
site specific
May 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

无题 Untitled

陶土，麻绳，树枝
stoneware, ropes, branches
approx. 5'x10'x12'
April 2011

热带雨林 Rainforest

综合媒体
mixed media
approx. 5'x7'x1'
April 2011

The splash of water washed down the drying acrylic palm prints on the window shades and created an illusion of rainforest during the monsoon season, my once favorite moment of the year. Surround myself with paintings of rainforest, I transformed the studio into a domain where my imagination went much further than the space and time that encapsulated my physical self. All memories of those special moments in Malaysia poured into the tiny studio of mine. One that stood up among all was the fading memory of a particular prose that I read in my Chinese textbook back in grade five. it was a story about the writer’s experience walking into a rubber estates during the dry season …

During the dry season, rubber trees shed their leaves turning the estate into a desolated ground. Walking on the leaves and twigs one could hear the crispy crushing sound amidst the silence void … although the details of the writing had faded away beyond recall, my vivid memory of the writer’s sentimental journey through the rubber estate has somehow always intrigued my longing for a home over the other side of the Earth… a land of no return.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

a=11, b=23, c=2

陶土，麻绳，
stoneware, ropes, found object
approx. 6'x6'x1'
April 2011

This piece of work is to showcase the different possibilities of presenting a simple material such as clay. A piece of clay work is usually presented to the audience only after it had gone through the final stage in glaze firing. However, I am more intrigued in the process and the different stages a piece of clay went through, i.e. the effect of different temperatures in transforming a piece of clay from its original highly moldable body to the eventual unchangeable form. The stages are indicated as follow:
a = the first stage (green ware),
b = the second stage (bisque),
c = the third stage (after high fire/glaze fire)

定位于另一个不同的思维空间：一零年夏北京七周 To Occupy a Different Space of Mind - Seven Weeks in Beijing 2010 Summer

综合媒体 mixed media
site specific
September 2010

This is a collaborative installation that was made possible with the help from the seven young artists that I met at CAFA (the Central Academy of Fine Arts) Beijing in the summer of 2010. Through bringing together the artworks of different artists, the installation expressed not only the visual interactions between the works, It also documented my encounters with the young artists. The walls was turned into a ground of recollection where I wrote down the memory of my interactions with the artists. The exercise had opened a gateway for me to return to a recent time and ponder upon a familiar yet distant relationship that I have with China and her culture. The installation is also an extension of my dissertation research on the topic of “To Occupy a Different Space of Mind: Investigating the connectivity between socio-cultural and historical contexts and the positioning of self in the studio art practice of the Post Eighty Generation Artists in Beijing“.

Artists：

Zhao Hui – Together We Fight Economic Crisis
Wang Ruosi – Nainai (Grand Ma) (installation)
Li Ning － Untitled
Zhou Jun － Untitled
Xiao Bin － Untitled (installation)
Huang Zheng － Mountain and Water（sculpture documentation)
Kamiljan － Dongzhimen（documentary）
Hong Wan Tham – Past Present Future（video）

赵辉 - 众志成城抵御金融风暴
王若思 - 奶奶 (装置)
李宁－无题
周君－无题
肖彬－无题 (装置)
黄镇－山水（雕塑记录)
喀米利江－东直门（纪录片）
覃鸿文 – 昨天今天明天（视频)