Let me tell you a secret...
2026
Site-specific installations
Dimensions variable
As a Site-specific installation artist exploring the connection between my practice and theater/stage design, I often sense the ghost of performance haunting my creations. Objects form a nomadic space or habitat, residing in the interstices of real space.
My work is precisely such a small, nomadic, resting space where the audience becomes the actors… while the text itself contains the spatial dimension of a story world, like a portal connecting my perception of several homelands. Within this perceptual space, you are subtly guided and induced by the objects—this is the evoked performance. Performance does not arise spontaneously but is triggered by objects and the senses. The candle flame triggers contemplation and a longing for connection; the scent and form of the soap evoke associations of cleansing, deception, and temptation; the cards on the carpet trigger reading and introspection. The trajectory of movement is composed of a series of triggered encounters.
It encapsulates all the elements of performance: the script (the cards), the stage (the space defined by objects), and the rules (the logic of the text). When someone enters, they are enveloped by the metaphorical world I have constructed, nested within the narrative space carried by the cards; at its innermost core lies the experiential and performative space generated within the audience through triggering. Performance is the energy latent within this field—present yet absent.
This space is also a miniature and nomadic theater, the most condensed "a room of one's own." For me, this work belongs to my mental wandering: a sensory travelogue meandering through various geographical spaces, as well as my own spiritual space, extending an invitation to interrogate and summon both the audience and the performance
the mirage of language
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