Resizing
2024.
Iron, carpet, sketch, collage, air-drying modeling clay, and pencil.
Commissioned and produced by Aranya Art Center.
The artist has lived and traveled in numerous countries, and language is an important sign through which she perceives the environment around her. She found inspiration in the orderly structure of Chinese characters and the unique architectural space of the Aranya Art Center, designing a series of furniture sculptures derived from folded Chinese characters. The artist has taken this exhibition as an opportunity to learn Chinese. The characters she has chosen, “目” (“mu,” meaning “eye”), “身” (“shen,” meaning “body”), “土” (“tu,” meaning “earth”), and the character component “亻” (signifying a person or people), are all symbols of our bodies and important elements of our surrounding environment. This furniture set, along with various forms of sketches, and carpets bearing the shadows of window panes, forms a “portable” studio of the artist’s imagination.
Photo: Sun Shi
