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Heart·Sutra
1999
This works provides two different perspectives on heart and
turns their transfer and coexistence into one kind of dramatic
physical experience.
Sutra of the Heart of Prajnaparaita is one of the important
sutra of Mahayana and also holds a very significant position
in the sutra of Chinese Zen. There were over 20 different translations
of the sutra in China's ancient dynasties and ancient calligraphers
repeated writing this sutra of only about 200 words, which includes
thorough discussions of the serenity and nirvana of heart.
The scripts of Heart·Sutra are written on the wall with invisible
fluorescent paints. Under the purple lights, the scripts, which
float in the dark background, give out fluorescence. In a sudden,
the strong incandescent lights are turned on with the purple
lights off and the scripts disappear., leaving the audiences
nothing but the white empty wall and a real human heart specimen
in the middle of the space. In five minutes, the incandescent
lights are gone with the purple lights on gradually. The audiences
pupils get used to the darkness for a while and the fluorescent
scripts become visible in the air gradually. Such process will
be constantly repeated.
The conflict of the idea of useless body in Chinese tradition
and the indelible materialization of the physical existence
composes the strain of this works.
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