张文心
Notes of the Hollow
ZHANG Wenxin
Duration：2022.07.30 - 08.30
In Chuang Tzu's "Equalizing Assessments of Things", it is said that "Notes of the earth take place in the hollows." When the wind passes through the holes in mountains, different sounds occur. Human beings are porous creatures. We make interact with the world via the holes in our bodies, exchanging information through time. This process is called life. Caves are an important topic throughout my creative practice, and in this exhibition, images of hollowness resonate with the mysterious ancient strange trees from Mud Gallery collection. And together they enter our human iris.
The cave is a place where geological time and ritual space meet, and the ancient strange trees are regarded as a passage to meditation in various religious traditions. With their forking shapes, the shriveled trees invoke a labyrinthine passage to human consciousness, calling us to ascend and descend with them. Deep down the passage, rock ashes and shriveled trees morph back to organisms from ancestral time, inviting us to step out of our anthropocentric bubble, to imagine all things evenly, and to compose a game of our collaborative rebirth.
Title Caligraphy by Chen Liang.