ARTIST STATEMENT

A discussion of rules

My works usually explore 'how people make rules while being trapped by rules'. During the past year or more in the resource utilization of Camberwell College of Art, I have gained more in-depth experience and practice of both media use and concept in this subject background.

I have continued to build visual symbols in this context regarding materials and media. I tried ceramic feet and performance art/video. In addition to the foot/red cloth/red line that often appeared in the past, I also created calligraphy red lanterns with extremely traditional Chinese meanings.

The gaze of these traditional symbols is my insight into the rules. The red lines, shadow lights, ceramic sculptures and Chinese red lanterns I often use in my work suggest a traditional world of rules. I admire the Asian artists and directors of the 1990s, such as Zhang Yimou, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-Liang, who transformed the constraints and breakthroughs of the old and new societies into cinematic storytelling and abstract camera language. I attempt to use this "intuitive ideology but abstract carrier" to create a more refined expression language so that the interwoven picture of modern tradition will experience an abnormal rebirth of time and space disorder when passing through the eyes of the audience.

My sculptures and installations often attempt to activate the viewer's perception, creating an enlarged and alien presence in the gallery space, and often highlighting the intricate relationships between desire and disgust, fear and fascination, in the context of the viewer and the larger society. In Marriage Law (2022), I arranged a similarly solemn ceremony so that the object took on a sense of solemnness when the viewer approached. Its scale was magnified to a terrifying and incredible extreme. The anxieties introduced in these works are also present in works such as Marriage Revolution (2022), Bloody Label (2022), and Holding the Hand (2021), which raise questions about traditional dross culture and the implementation of rules and examine the idea of captivity and freedom.