Scenery (风景)
"Scenery" aims to present and extend discussions related to the "aesthetic complex" in a careful yet playful manner, navigating the subtle boundaries between reality and rhetoric, text and interpretation, and literary qualities and visual impact. By selecting names associated with landscapes from the color names systematically assigned by paint manufacturers both domestically and internationally, each corresponding color is precisely measured and sealed in a seven-inch transparent bag, resembling a circulated postcard that can even be privately owned by viewers. Each card is wrapped in a modified paper bag printed with the color name and code, and they are neatly stored in nine wooden boxes fixed to the exhibition wall in a grid formation. Through the cyclic process of "drawing, browsing, and searching for cards," viewers continuously engage in an imaginative interaction with the text-based emotional "imaginations" of scenery. Opening the cards prompts a simultaneous experience of both painting and photography, encouraging a reexamination and contemplation of the concept of scenery.
The exhibition project "Breathing the Universe" includes two artworks, "Scenery" and "A Bed Sheet from the Countryside." "Breathing the Universe" is calligraphy engraved in the Ming Dynasty on Mount Tai.
