- Weaving/TEXT
- The work is based on the definition of text as weaving and is a game involving texts interspersed with each other to create infinite meanings. What is text? Here the text is not the creation, like written text. It’s more like the act of reading text. This is a text that is written on ourselves when we read it: it disperses and spreads; or we face a certain story. At least we can see clearly that we progressively need a little bit of coercion, constantly fighting with the explosive power of the text and energy of its journey in our body. The theory that text is ‘a piece of fabric, a kind of weaving’ appears in Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text. The interior of a text is overlapped and braided, and words are arranged into it. Weaving is a very anarchic activity – it is spontaneous, selfless, and without subject. The six wire works also weave space around the objects. As Jacques Derrida says, in Writing and Difference, ‘By means of the dates of these texts, we would like to mark that at the moment, to connect them, to reread them, we cannot keep ourselves at an equal distance from each of them. What remains here the displacement of a question certainly forms a system. By some interpretive stitching, we would have known how to draw it afterwards. We have left nothing to show except the dotted line, sparing or abandoning these blanks without which no text is ever proposed as such. If text means fabric, all these essays have stubbornly defined the seam as basting.’ The text is deconstructed. And the deconstructed text has an open structure that can arouse multiple feelings and ever-changing impressions in the reader's mind. These feelings and impressions are intertwined as the traces of the text.
- The selected texts in the works here are all from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves. The novel itself is a kind of fictional reality, and Woolf’s novel is a particularly good example. It uses a stream of consciousness approach to write about the life of the six protagonists, along with the ebb and flow of the waves. Their names are Jinny, Rhoda, Susan, Neville, Louis, and Bernard. The text on the items is all from Yihan’s rewriting of Chapter 8 of the novel, in which the six characters gather after Percival's death. The six figures come together, and the text is disconnected because of this death. When the text reflects on the object, these six characters are not able to separate completely, whether in talking to themselves or in conversation.
- (Six objects are made by cold connecting with words printing on leaves/feathers)
