Adhesive photos collage on layers of glass
Every object cannot be self-existent in the form of flow
and permanency. Books are stored on shelves; wine is put into glass bottles;
water need to rely on coast to constitute river; even though air is such
invisible element, we have the Earth as the storage. All these are the things
possessing ability like protection and providing positions for the protected
ones to exist. Positions are: something has to open for discovery, such as gift
boxes and chests of treasure; something is concealed from our sight that we can
percept through our experiences, such as roots in vases of flower and furniture
in houses.
They are all containers. Take a closer look. Containers
can be divided into two categories. One is continuous, such as cars and purses.
They have constant changes and keep being the witnesses to the documentary
results. Another one is consumable. When things inside containers are consumed
or used, the containers remain showing their original packaging methods or
appearances and provide certain information to tell what features of things
have disappeared, such as instructions on product boxes and labels on wine
bottles. Tang was attracted by the interdependence between containers and the
things loaded. Shapes, function, appearances, symbols, and so on are identified
between them. They voicelessly make room for us to write stories when we deal
with their combinations.
This is an exhibition about collage. Materials are
generally from several aspects. Include: photos of shops and housing that Tang
took near his home at day and night to reflect difference among the working
time and the rest of human in the indoor environment; through imagination and
reconstruction, using keywords about containers and searching by internet
search engine is a way to acquire angles of seeing from the others under
advance criteria; by collecting 60 different wine bottles, Tang carved, took
photos and rearranged images on wine labels to make fictitious scenes of
landscapes and cities, in order to express illusion of getting rid of modern
life in drunk, etc.
單一的物事不能擁有恆久而獨立自存的流動形態；書籍儲存於書架；酒要放進玻璃樽內；流水需要靜止不動的沿岸依靠才能構成溪河；即便空氣，亦要有著作為星體的地球將其寄存及承載。這些具有相若於保護功能的東西，提供受保護者一個存在的狀態：有須要打開發現的，如禮物盒、寶箱；有隱密於視線之外的，透過我們生活的經驗去感知內藏的物事，如花瓶裡的水、房屋內的傢具。
它們都是容器。
再細心一看，容器大致可以分為兩種形式，一種是持續的，如汽車、錢包，內容不斷在內更替，見證著一種帶有紀錄意味的結果；另一種是消費的，當容器內的東西被消費或使用過後，就會剩下顯示出其原初狀態的包裝方法或外貌，並提供若干資料訴說已然消失的東西的特性，如產品盒上的說明、酒瓶上的招紙。我為容器及其內藏事物間相互依賴的狀態所吸引，兩者影響著各自的形態、功能、外貌、符號等等，故事在當中無聲息地建立起可被發掘及轉化的可能。
這個展覽的作品形式主要是拼貼，素材來自幾方面，包括在日與夜的不同時分於住所附近拍攝的房屋照片，以反映工作與作息間人類的生活模式及室內環境的轉變；以聯想及相關容器的關鍵詞在互聯網上找尋圖片，如巴士、藥瓶，嘗試從虛擬的搜尋器建構的準則裡，獲得第三者對觀看容器的角度及視點，然後經自身重塑及整理一些想象的畫面；另搜集了60枝不同的酒，然後透過雕刻、拍照及電腦製造出一個虛構的都市環境，探討酒後醉醺意圖逃離現世生活的痴想等等。
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