After doing the
photography project and magazine project, I think the color of blue is going to
be my personal symbol. In other words, the blue oil color is like my
personal logo. Then I did my final project ‘Brutality’, about ‘the value
of discarded things’. This project tries to evolve, surprise and question the
audience and the art world in this commercial society. To a large extent this
project is about examining concepts of “value” in our culture and re-investing
discarded, old, vintage things with meaning and use. I’m trying to
point viewers’ attention to specific objects and events in life that risk being
overlooked as being too quotidian or too common. I also think art making
is less about the invention or construction of new things, but more about the
close paying attention to existing things. The abandoned things made by
any human beings have witnessed the pass of time. Giving these wasted old
things a new life is a kind of return, as well as a kind of expectation to the
nice time of the future.
Using normal
materials to make a creation is not a new concept, but the reasonable
application could make it outstanding at the aspects of innovation and
quality. In the final show I will
set up a shop named ‘Brutality’ to sale these ‘redesigned products’ and
randomly price them with very high price. On the other hand, the shop
will sell these things from 10% OFF to 100% OFF during the 9-day of
final show in order to show the life-cycle of the product or the artwork.
And meanwhile, it will make viewers think about that what is the real value of
packaged products and how do we value things.
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