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Curtain of Script

2008
Installation
Long Scroll of Paper Curtains, Computer, Projector
400 x 400 x 350cm

Selected Exhibitions

2008
“Digit@logue – ‘Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue Exhibition Series I’”, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

Award

Shortlisted, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, 2009

Artist Statement

A well-known Sung Dynasty poet and critic, Su Dong Bo, used to comment a Tang Dynasty poet and painter Wang Wei’s works, “there is painting in his poem, and there is poem in his painting.” By reading the poem, which stimulate our various senses, which create a synesthetic experience. In computer language, “Recursive” program have a key element, which is the process of object repeat itself continuously. This uses the same methodology of mountain drawing in Chinese ink painting. If you see a painting from a further distance, there are stacks of mountains, which create an illusion of high-and-far perspective. When we take a closer look, layers of large and small, thick and thin, lighter and darker strokes compose each mountain. Composition of the painting is base on different ways of repetition. By picking a few familiar Classic Chinese Five word Mountain Water poems to be generated by the “Recursive” program, the original poem texts repeat themselves base on the rhythm and slowly appear on the canvas. The familiar poem becomes unfamiliar. There are patterns of texts spread on canvas, which create a visual poetry. The disruptive script conflicts our sense. The pattern and repetition of characters somewhat create a unique experience. Different from Calligrammes, you may not see the distinctive meaning on it’s own, but you may witness the abstract spatial rhythm which experience introduces a new way of reading the same Classic Chinese poem. “Recursive” computer algorithm becomes a process that can be visualized through the repetition of the same character on the canvas. The repetition of the word “mountain” (山) induces a kind of perspective somehow we sense numerous “mountains” in front of us. The sprinkle of scripts introduce us different things we see along the way of visiting mountain.

Curtain of Script
Exhibition View at Hong Kong Museum of Art

Curtain of Script
Exhibition View at Hong Kong Museum of Art

Curtain of Script
Exhibition View at Hong Kong Museum of Art