LIUYI HUANG
Artist talk: Lihong Liu
'Deja Vu'
LiHong's talk opened my eyes to the possibility of continuous development and exploration of a theme as a long-term project.
What's interesting is that many artists are looking back to their childhood and past, letting time settle their art and allowing memories to tell their stories.
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She uses illusory shadows and lines to represent the past, which inspired me a lot, whether the time traces I looking for can be expressed by many co-existing physical objects.
It once existed here, always be a somewhat sad theme with memories. The pure white colour truly shows this haziness and ambiguity in a space of the same color. Does my green chairs have a similar effect on emotional express?
Artist talk: Fay Ballard
'Translating one life'
Fay Ballard, Memory Box:Drawn from memory, 2010-2015
Fay's lecture gives a sense of serenity, as does her works. During the talk, she talked about her works about memory of her old house and her mother, using pencil slowly drawing very detailed pictures is her way of remembering these.
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It reminds me in ancient times, monks would travel to India for several years to study the scriptures, and then spend a whole lifetime in towers when they return hometown, translating those scriptures dreary but reverently. Her works give me such a same sense, she is translating herself and her life through her drawing to the world. Even though it is a plain story, it can't help but make people immersed in her faint sadness memory.
The work influences the audience as well as the author.
Artist talk: Rosalind Davis
'Thriving and Surviving'
'What success is?'
'Why making art?'
'Do you wanna connecting people with you?'
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Moon and Sixpence always being a long-time question perplexing artists.
This talk profoundly illuminates the oscillation between these two options as an artist. Her solutions is be surviving first and connecting artists around to making 'thriving' sustain when artists discuss, sharing, and support each other. Ideally.
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I do gain a lot about the experiences of being an artist in today's society, as the same time, I start thinking what my art means to me.