Color Fill Red, Color Fill Yellow and Move Tool are three works with the appearance of traditional Chinese scrolls. Rather than brushed-on ink of Chinese characters, the scrolls instead present ink-jet printed icons of the tool bar found within the popular image-editing software Adobe Photoshop. Through calling the viewer’s attention to the function and form of ideographs across cultures and epochs, and intentionally confusing the digital space of pixels with physical space of silk and gallery walls, these works engage ideas about the ancient human nexus of communications technology, language and image-making.
Color Fill Red, Color Fill Yellow 和 Move Tool 这系列作品是三张传统书画卷轴,然而,卷轴上的并不是书法或者书画作品,而是设计软件Adobe Photoshop的工具栏。我并没有按照传统使用的毛笔绘制,而是利用矢量设计软件制作了表意上的像素格[1],拼贴出图像。最后我在中国某电商上订购了传统书画定制和装裱,丝绸印刷,完成了我的作品。这系列作品向观众指出了跨越文化和时空的两种象形文字:中文和电脑图标的相似性。利用像素粒和卷轴的效果刻意混淆了实体空间(画廊的墙壁和卷轴)和数字空间(Photoshop的工具栏)的概念。这系列表现了古今视觉传达,余元文字和图像制作中的连结。
Installation views from Telepresence, two person show with Xu Fan