One And Ten Thousand Lies
2022 | Mercury, Argon, Glass Tube, Transformer
One And Ten Thousand Lies comments on art, and it is a manifesto for my
art. My work is about meticulous reinspection to the
material; things that are integrated with perceptions and politics. I create
illusions, imagined scenarios, or duplicate, accounted by their intentions and
how much cares involved. However, the material lies just like any written
language does. I lie by showing how much care I pay to the material, in the seeking
of truth and essence. Now the most recent truth is I elaborately weave one and
ten thousand more lies making up for one another.
I utilize neon light as
a medium that speak to the truth by creating faked sensation and vicarious
experience. Historically, neon light heavily attached to commercial
advertisement because illuminated gas within glass tubes can convey messages of
some relaxing, comfortable, daily but special encounters between merchants and
consumers. As a result of both this history and our nostalgia, neon works today
often provide the same level of comfortableness, and casual-but-specialness to
the audiences, even without the commercial context. Neon becomes both humorous
and serious, comfortable and alarming.
