Object 1997
Four video project on 4 wall of a totally dark room, in the video, there are hands lighting the matches to show different objects, then fade in the darkness. The 4 video were shoot in 4 room that the artist had been lived in, so it brings the style of different time and local.
The video-installation OBJECT is trying to arouse incomers' prompt reactions by the unpredictable chanciness and dedicated to create the psychological interactions. Matches are lighted ever and again on the screens of different directions and locations and trivial stuffs of daily life are illuminated and then disappear swiftly in the darkness. Incomers to the dark house experience constant and unordered appearance and vanish of the object and their reactions are made active in the switch of brightness and darkness, ens and naught. The object possesses foreordination of life and death because of the lighting and vanishing of the matches. The encounter between human and the object lies in karma and chance.
" We only have visions and nostaglic memories of the would as it sinks into darkness. In order to experience different objects as miracles, we must hide them in darkness, and individually illuminate them. The meaning and significance of each object are enlightened in our heart, burnt by sensation. We are the fuel for burning objects, and them us. We meet at the River Heraclitus and glace towards each other. We memorize this moment, and then it melts into darkness again."
The illumination of distant, forgotten objects are like the flashes in our collective culture memory. Here not only the artist's personal history is sought, but also a collective longing for the past, forgotten generations and the traditions surface out of the darkness only to dissolve into oblivion after the match light fades.
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