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OOPJECT? um/ intentional objects
by Tina Keng Gallery
Location: Tina Keng Gallery
Date: 7 Aug - 29 Aug 2010

This exhibition begins from a mysterious media experience. In Western art magazines you can ofen find such imageries: white walls, concrete floor (or so called Muji-style light wooden floor), and elevated space; there is a crambled piece of map on the floor ( that works is named Earth), with certain gallery's name typed on it, then you will find it a very pleasant setting.

Besides a pleasant setting, however, this sort of artwork that does not prone to particular medium and technique, neither going towards refinement, probably exits in Taiwan, but to us, it is still categorized as a mysterious experience because how do these objects exist in galleries? Why do they attract collectors? Base on curiosity and jealousy, thus such exhibition is curated. It is as a scrambled paper ball, our exhibition contains objects such as burnt pot lid or motorcycle of illegal construction, and the scrambled map represents Earth, the pot lid flew over the

sky of Tainan City to become an UFO; however, a paper ball is still a paper ball, just as a pot lid is still a pot lid, these are humors of subtlety. Futhermore, this exhibition focuses on "the process of creativity" rather than finalized or polished results. If I have to state an example, I would say that the focus is on "the wall panels with clay finish buy without the paint"; it is difficult to say that it is a wall, but at most "wall panels that is going to become a wall".

Hence, to be precise, these artworks are prone towards "unfinished" but they are "better looking than finished", it gives a slight sense of feeling "Oops!" or unintentional.

Reversion, humor, subtlety, with clay qualities to form an exhibition, there are not hi-tech skills or expensive materials, OOPJECT is more like an essay lingering between poem and joke, a humorous mix and match found between pronunciation and definition; they are objects that are light enough to recerse reality.

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