Chart of the Inner Landscape I: The Fold, the Hinge and the Labyrinth
19/07-19/10/2025
Macau Art Museum
Rebar, bronze, papier-mâché (consists of Chinese and Portuguese newspaper, paint, ingredients of Chunambo etc.), salted fish, Chinese sausage, Digital Collage on Chinese Rice paper, mixed media
Installation view of ‘Chart of the Inner Landscape I: The Fold, the Hinge and the Labyrinth’ in ‘Hey, what brings you here?’ Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2025, curated by Feng Boyi, co-curated by Liu Gang & Wu Wei
Participating artists: Xu Bing , Bart Hess , Zhang Peili , Chan Hung-Lu , Kimsooja , Rui Calçada Bastos , Bi Rongrong , Cao Shu , Mark Chung , Ding Shiwei , Drawing Architecture Studio , José Drummond , Fan Bo , Shilpa Gupta , Huang Hai-Hsin , Huang Liyan , Jaffa Lam , Bianca Lei , Liu Ke & Huang Huang , Mao Tongqiang , Lucy McRae , Pak Sheung Chuen , People’s Architecture Office , Roksana Pirouzmand , Tobias Rehberger , Pedro Reyes , Gregor Schneider , SHIMURAbros , Song Dong , Wong Weng Cheong , Wong Weng Io , Xue Feng
The work employs the Taoist ‘Chart of the Inner Landscape’ as a metaphor, translating the body’s meridians into the spiritual pathways of a city to explore the fluid states of ‘intermediate, transitional, migratory’ existence. Five sculptures correspond to bodily senses, bridging Macau’s historical stratifications with contemporary survival: ‘Origin‘ & ‘Ecstasy‘ – Eye, Ear: Papier-mâché consists of Chinese and Portuguese newspapers, mixed media and rebar piercing like neural synapses reveals the dual erosion of colonial memory’s material sedimentation and modernity’s cacophony. ‘Light of Pli‘ – Mouth: A hybrid structure of secondhand vessels and childhood candies encases the cloying sweetness and corrosion of vernacular language, reassembling collective nostalgia through everyday objects.
Dealer (details), Bronze, Dimensions variable, 2025, These hand sculptures is a collaboration with my father – the right hand is my hand, the other is my father‘s. I asked him to recall the gestures of “dealer” (莊荷）in casino, the job he did when he was younger. As a dealer one has to sit in front of the table to greet the guests with his palms up.
Chart of the Inner Landscape, Digital collage on Chinese rice paper, Dimensions variable, 2025, The ground collage extends into a labyrinth of meridians from the Chart of the Inner Landscape, where Macau’s Baroque motifs intertwine with Taoist acupoints, forming a ‘walking acupuncture’ – the audience’s footsteps become silver needles activating metaphors, piercing the city’s congested tissues and pressure points. Through folded spatiotemporal hinges, the work asks: Is contemporary existence a labyrinth, or a Taoist inner sanctum for spiritual cultivation?
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