Comics, glass, MDF and mixed media
Bank Safe Robbers
46 x 30 x 18 cm
Bandit Rescue Team
30 x 25 x 27 cm
Subterranean Assassins
13 x 100 x 125 cm
Certain figures with “negative” connotations are often portrayed by writers and filmmakers as characters of striking individuality—like bandits depicted as extraordinary figures possessing a unique criminal aesthetic and philosophical outlook, or as chivalrous heroes who rob the rich to aid the poor and stand up for the weak. Whatever the portrayal, freedom and indulgence have become synonymous with the bandit in the fictional world—qualities that, in today’s crowded and systematized society, only highlight the unrestrained spirit urban dwellers lack yet long for.
I attempt to merge the Chinese martial‑arts world of comic books with the crime scenes of bandits in film, using the chivalry and brotherhood of the ancient wuxia tradition to extend its aesthetics and philosophy, and setting this in contrast with the tangled realities—and imagined possibilities—of modern life.
一些帶有負面價值的人物往往被作家、導演等描繪成具強烈個性的角色，就如強盜被刻劃成擁有著特殊犯罪美學及哲學思想的超凡人物；又或被形容為劫富濟貧、鋤強扶弱的俠義之士。不論何者，自由及放縱可說是強盜在虛構世界的代名詞，尤在現今擁擠及體制化的社會，更突顯都市人所缺乏，以至所憧憬的奔放思維。
我嘗試將漫畫裡中國的武俠世界結合電影中強盜的犯罪場景，以古代的武俠情義引申其美學及哲學，跟現代社會繁瑣及想象間的生活作一對照。
