Work 2: "A Person"
Regarding this series of works, I once tried to explore what meaning is.
To prevent viewers from hastily drawing worrying harmful inferences and反感 towards this series, I only want to remind that the scope of thought involved in the works is not limited by specific perceptual intuition, but possesses an unrestricted field. Only an intuition of what we think, that is, the determination of the categories of thought, is necessary. In the absence of intuition, the contemplation of the works can still have its real and useful consequences in the rational application beyond the theme, but such a determination of the theme and its meaning directed at personal categories of thought cannot and will not interfere with the discourse of the works themselves.
I excitedly wrote many texts about the "readability" and "sensibility" of the works and their meanings. I also tried to find the origin of concepts from traditional Chinese culture and Western grammatical systems. Every time I wrote a few sentences, I felt it was still not enough. Even if I filled hundreds of pages about the meaning of the works, I was still dissatisfied with this statement. So, I stopped talking about what they mean, only writing: "They are here." Yet I still couldn't be completely certain, until I asked someone, and he said: "You must stop right here, it's so wonderful, stop right here and say 'They are here'."
- Release:
- 2019
- Task:
- Art Creation
- Artist:
- Tang Yifei / togihi
Work 2: "A Person"
Material | Photography
Experimenting with this series of works, the main intention was to create agency and tension for the viewer through a visual medium.
I attempted to forcibly combine the stability of the entire body with the strongly directional agency of the limbs, without suggesting the organic unity of these parts. Therefore, one can determine that the main form he expresses is to create an inner tension by fusing discordant aspects, making the viewer feel as if they are in a kind of illusion, or as if they are placed in a certain position within the space reproduced by this work, or even as if they are the work itself.
When several different parts fuse into a pictorial unit, the desired tension can only be achieved when this pictorial unit produces a contradictory illusion that appears to be both this thing and another thing.
This state is neither the result of the viewer's imagination of the work, nor the result of the interaction between the tested work and the viewer, but rather comes from the visual contradiction generated by the work itself and the tension it creates.
—— Reshaping Design RIDS