2018

01.12 – 22.12.2018 

Gallery EXIT

Social Transformations

An Exhibition Celebrating 20 Years of Partnership between RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School

11.11 – 28.11.2018

Hong Kong Arts Centre

Myrrh, which means in Chinese: no medicine. It is said that in the Bible, the bodies were buried with Myrrh. The Magi brought three gifts to Jesus after he was born, Myrrh was one of them; and Myrrh is presented to the dead. Thus, Myrrh is associated with death while it is used for relieving the pains. Having said that, I am not a Christian, just attracted by the homonym of Myrrh in Chinese. There are too many incurable things in the world. If there is no medicine to heal, only self-help could reduce these sufferings.

沒藥(myrrh)，又稱末藥、製沒藥、製末藥。據說在聖經裏，埋葬的時候大多用上沒藥；此為東方博士獻給耶穌的其中之一份禮物，亦用來獻給死人。如此，沒藥與死亡有關，也用來減輕痛苦。然而我不是教徒，只是被其諧音吸引。世上太多無可救藥，唯有自救，減輕痛苦。

Eyes of Ravens Raiser

啄眼的烏鴉

​26.03 – 12.04.2018

CL3

Curator 策展人: Carol Lee Mei Kuen​ 李美娟 

I am obsessed with psychoanalysis, concerned about individual values under social norms. Time is cyclical - A status is turned into various conditions and shows up repeatedly.

No one could affirm and explain the reason of depression. ./No one could explain the reason of depression precisely. Trauma is not only a personal experience, but also collective – Perhaps, it comes from conscious or subconscious behaviour, ignorance, indifference, memories and history; or the distance between the private inner world and the authentic external world. Nevertheless, maybe, these are autosuggestion and more than words. I would rather project these psychological sceneries with drawings than be lost in language – staring at the sceneries while the spectator is part of sceneries.

“Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos” (Raise ravens and they’ll pluck out your eyes) not only a Spanish proverb, but also a movie title. Cría Cuervos (Raise Ravens) which is a film directed by Carlos Saura in 1976, regarded as the masterpiece of .psychologl and political fable. It is about the anxiety of childhood, strong bonding between the child and mother, gender issue and even a metaphor of social situation - interpretation are varied, who knows? The only thing I am sure is the featured song “Porque te vas” (Because you are leaving) has become my earworm.

我沉迷於精神分析的研究，關注社會規範中的個人價值，以直視自己作為人的精神狀態。時間是環形的，某種狀態總是以各種面貌重覆出現。

無人可以斷言解釋憂鬱的原因。創傷並不單指個人，也是集體性——也許來自有意識或潛意識的行為、無知、冷漠、記憶和歷史，或來自私人的內心世界與現實的外部世界之間的差距。然而這一切可能只是自我暗示，而且無法言喻。與其失語，不如不斷嘗試以繪畫呈現這些心理景觀——凝視景觀的同時，觀看者也是景觀的一部分。

「飼養的烏鴉，長大後會啄走你的眼睛。」不單是一句西班牙諺語，其中一個意思指人無法改變天性，違反自然。也是Carlos Saura於1976年執導電影《Cría Cuervos（飼養烏鴉）》的名字來源。電影被譽為心理學傑作及政治寓言。關於童年的陰霾、與母親的強烈羈絆、關於女性，更是社會狀況的隱喻——解讀總有各種各樣，誰能說實？我只確定電影中重覆兩次的歌曲《Porque te vas》（因為你要離開）在腦海縈繞不散。

​Eternal Return.

Before I realize of its return, it has already been there.

I depicted screens from The Birds (1963), Cría Cuervos (1976) and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) as implications, transformed them into Phenakistiscope.

​The RPM of spinning light boxes corresponds to my age, and literally the month and date of my mother’s birthday.

永劫回歸。

在我意識到它回來之前，它就已經來到了。

我挪用電影《鳥》(1963) 、《飼養烏鴉》(1976)和《索多瑪一百二十天》(1975)的畫面部份作為暗示，繪畫成詭盤。

燈箱的轉速跟我的年齡一致，亦跟我母親的出生月日數字相同。