ABOUT THE WORK
Material: rice paper, ink, pigment and colour powder
The Joy of Fish and Water is a monumental rice paper work where I integrate performance art with traditional ink... Read More
The Joy of Fish and Water is a monumental rice paper work where I integrate performance art with traditional ink painting, using the flux and dissolution of desire as a thread to explore the transient nature of emotional relationships. I construct a dialogue between the “arc aesthetics” of Eastern painting and the “scientific perspective” of the Western Renaissance, while deliberately disrupting pictorial integrity through the physical intervention of color powder—an allegory for the fragility of memory and desire.
The complete image of the initial state, the video documentation of my performative intervention, and the traces left by the peeling color powder together form a trinity of narratives. As the scattered color traces fall to the ground, the audience becomes a “secondary deconstructor” through their participation, echoing the uncontrollable nature of desire and the fluidity of memory.
