Curator
PAI Shih-Ming

10/ 9 Sat 直播回看
14:30-16:00
Artist Talk │ PAI Shih-Ming X HSU Yu-Jen
16:00
Opening

11/ 6 Sat
14:30-17:00 Lecture
Host │ PAI Shih-Ming

Presupposition and chance are like certain units on the two opposite ends of a scale, on which their positions are determined in the cyclic dialectics between the tangible and the intangible as well as the movable and the immovable. This cycle symbolizes a form of alternation of energy, site, consciousness and labor, bringing forth the coexistence of knowledge and perception through the logical relationship between forms and colors. Realms and boundaries are consequently born from such a relationship or state – formless realms and tangible boundaries, through interrelated and interconnected forms, colors, knowledge and perception, fulfill the law of duality that is both free and fixed. For Hsu Yu-Jen, his unrestrained creative work that moves between the conscious mind and the unconscious engenders an authentic sense of freedom and liberation, allowing “the true self” to be revealed. The imageries, symbols or visual vocabularies in his work are therefore able to possibly “extend inward” or “expand outward” through will, intuition and imagination, forming realms and boundaries produced by the interaction of forms, colors, knowledge and perception.

From his well-known Rough-brush Ink Painting Series, Thin-brush Ink Painting Series, Aquarene Painting Series, Ink Scribing Series to the recently developed and matured Shapeless Series, they have all followed different scales of forms, colors, knowledge and perception to maintain a close or distant scale and torque to reach self-releasing and surpass realms within the balanced coordinates of boundaries. “Ask not for knowledge nor substance. Place perception before

knowledge. Ask not for form and image nor ink and brush” to return to “the childlike mind” that encompasses all forms, colors, knowledge and perception. Artistic creation takes place and exists in the transmission of energy between material and body before being visualized in the site co-constructed by instruments and visual images. Realms and boundaries, like consciousness and labor, are inseparable; and their encounter happens in presupposition and chance. Inking traces, dots of dry ink, coloring, splattering, layering, dry and wet ink, heaviness and lightness, delayed brushstrokes all come to symbolize this seeking and encountering process that surfaces either in silence or variations, in brushstrokes or in one’s mind, to bring vital life into both wastelands and fertile fields.