Floating Projects Collective 句點

- Wendy TAI

Current opens on July 31 at FPC. Opening reception begins 6:00pm
Exhibition period: 31.07-15.08.2010

#1

The gallery floor is covered in charcoal portraits. The portraits are drawn from a bird’s eye view, as if looking down at a mass of mingling people from above. It could be you.

We are socially conditioned to treat artwork as precious and sacred – we speak softly in museums, we maintain respectable distance, we are never to touch the work. The museum as sanctuary; the museum as mausoleum.

This piece is the opposite of untouchable art. You enter the space, you walk around, you smear the charcoal under your feet. Activating the space means wiping out the drawings. Or perhaps you are adding to the drawings through movement? The art exists only through its own obliteration.

#2

Movements, flows, currents. …

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