Fuck You Pop-up Ink Installation by Mathias Woo
Visual Arts
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The creative journey of FUCK YOU POP-UP INK INSTALLATION finds its root in the Chinese character for Fuck, which is transliterated as Diu. There are two ways to write the character Diu. One is to insert the character for Small into that for Door. The other one consists of two pictographic parts showing the image of a hanging corpse. Why is the word Diu being chosen as a focal point of the exhibition? Is it because of its unusual typographic structure with the character Small positioned inside a pair of Doors? Or could it be a bodily organ placed between a pair of legs? What exactly does the character of Small stand for in this context?
The FUCK YOU POP-UP INK INSTALLATION aims to explore the culture of Chinese text. So, is the formation of Chinese characters similar to that of the emoji nowadays? Does the character structure already reveal the meaning of the word? The character Diu allows so much room for imagination. For a non-Chinese reader, does Diu appear as a smiling whiskered man with spectacles?
A unique dialogue on the culture of Chinese typography is to be kicked off at the 2-day pop-up ink installation exhibition at Osage Gallery.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2018" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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