Materials: Natural debris attached to frosted glass panel

2012

Exhibition Location: MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

2015

Exhibition Location: SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA

Materials: Natural debris attached to frosted glass panel

2012

Exhibition Location: Palace Museum, Beijing, China

First exhibited: Book From the Ground: From Point to Point, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China, 2012

2012: 17'

2012, 2015: 15'

Materials: seventeen-minute animated film 

This animation is conceived as a study and imagination of a calligraphy masterpiece by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) in the collection of Yahoo’s founder, Mr. Zhiyuan Yang. Through the medium of widescreen animation, The Character of Characters describes the source of the unique character of Chinese people. Everyone in China who has received basic education must, over the course of years, commit to memorize and then write and re-write thousands of characters, each character a drawing. This is the way things have been done over thousands of years in the Chinese history, so this must have had some influence on the formation of the character of Chinese people. It implies the way that Chinese people see and approach things, and why China is the way it is today – developing at this breakneck speed but not in line with the Western value system.

Chinese people’s worldviews and concepts of freedom; the consequences of Chinese people’s flexibility, collectivism, face-saving mentality, moral stance that demands focus on communal interests, and worship of symbols and big names; the ability of Chinese culture to digest other cultures, and the Chinese culture of copying (“shanzhai”). All of these special characteristics could be said to have a deep connection to the Chinese way of writing characters. This animation seeks to reveal the relation between Chinese writing and cultural characteristics, the core and energy of Chinese culture, and its advantages and disadvantages for people to continue to build new modes of human civilization.

 Supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.

2012

Materials: Natural debris attached to frosted glass panel

Location: Mass Moca, North Adams, MA, USA

Location: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA

Medium: Mixed media installation/ tobacco leaves, live tobacco plants, various tobacco related materials

2012

Medium: Mixed media installation/ Student drawings, painting, primer, computer (auction website)

Location:  Sao Paulo, Brazil (30th Sao Paulo Biennial)

Website: http://forestproject.net

Through art, the internet, culture, education and the involvement of local folks Forest Project creates a system to facilitate the automatic and uninterrupted flow of funds from developed countries to Kenya, earmarked for the planting of new trees.

2008 - 2010 / 2012

Materials: construction debris, light emitting diodes

Dimension: 27 and 28 meters in length, 8 meters in width 

Location: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA