So Many Quiet Walks To Take
Visual Arts
Description
Description
In the last three years, Lee has been dealing with the symbolic implication of power over history archives and records in Hong Kong. The “archive” has been never been a value-free site of collection. Instead, power is revealed through historiographic constitution, which is Lee’s major research subject and source material of his artistic practice.
Taking a retrospective look on his research methodology, Lee finds himself archiving and inserting himself as a moment in history. The act of turning physical documents and records into art is also that of reconfiguring his own thought system. Giving a structure to archivable documents is at once making them available as “strategums” (Barthes) and embodying the artist’s own subjective mnemonic focus, “punctums.” The process of recognising the mentally housed inscription, organising “documents” and exteriorizing as art is the key to this exhibition.
An ordinary box for postage, two stacked pillows, an on-site silkscreen printing station, fragments of phrases and sentences, a hand-sewed book that was forbidden from past exhibition, window and more windows, some private records, and some quiet walks… a series of apparently unrelated everyday life objects, photographs and moving images allude to the artist’s psychic archivization of his practice and memories. Lee removes the objectivity that is somehow conceived with conventional notion of archive and its formulation and, instead, looks for alternative narratives.
Lee considers So Many Quiet Walks to Take as a prelude to his next project, in which the body of work sustains in curating memory but, in the end, buries it as well.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2016" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Info
Indoor