Map, Texture, and Material

2023 Jul.-Aug. "Map, texture, and material," Solo Exhib, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung

The series of works leverages digital modeling materials, maps, textures, and technologies to reflect on the foundational structure of sculpture from a digital perspective. The goal is to explore the ontological nature of sculptural connection with images, deconstruct the conceptual elements of sculpture, and ponder the entity and essence of images. This is achieved by examining the dialectical relationship between images and sculptures and considering how images, akin to sculptures, possess an image body and form.

Skinning Projection installation The work starts from two concepts of repetitive thinking: "between the texture of the image and the texture of the image, and between the skin of the image and the skin of the image." The work transforms the texture of a pillar into an image or a piece of body through shooting and scanning, and projects the image on the pillar utilizing real-life projection, to feel the texture of the image using sight and touch and to feel the real body through the texture. From the image of texture to the texture of the image, the concept of texture flows, responding to the question of how the image has a texture.

UV-Air conditioner outdoor unit(dual) Projection installation UV-Air conditioner indoor unit Projection installation The "UV-" series draws inspiration from skinning, a common material mapping technique in 3D modeling. 3D models consist of a shell layer and hollow interior, and the skin (image) transforms them into tangible objects. By projecting the image onto equal-sized white squares, a simple curved long body is produced, representing the outer skin and its attributes. This analog image breaks through as a representation of itself, possessing a physical presence with volume, texture, continuous surfaces, and tactile sculptural elements.

Material, Window type aircon Map and Iron corrugated board Texture Projection installation draws inspiration from the common sight of air conditioners and iron corrugated boards outside buildings in Taiwan. It utilizes digital mapping to explore the interaction between the image and physical object, revealing the depth and hidden bodies of the imagery through a sculptural approach. The juxtaposition of digital mapping and physical objects creates a conceptual flattening of the waveboards, highlighting the power of images and the presence of their concealed forms.

White picture(Three Panel) Projector、transparent image Three projectors of the same model were set up at the installation site with equal spacing, and a hex editor was used to compile a "clean" png file with only a transparent alpha layer (without any editing, software, or commercial company information), and the transparent png file was projected by the three projectors at the site to produce a pictureless image. The transparent png file is projected by three projectors on the site to create a projection screen with no picture. The projector is the active subject in the artwork, and the transparent png file is translated by the information and light from the projector to create a visible projection screen with no picture on the site. In this way, the projection responds to the organic state of White Paintings in relation to the space and environment through the relationship between topography (the projection of value and space) and projection technology (the correspondence between space and space), and the correspondence and interaction between the transparent file and the projector.

Shiyi Shop Projection installation The work is an extension of the images and digital materials picked up at the exhibition site. The enlargement, reduction, and reversal of the original space objects allow numerical intervention in the sculpture. The projected image makes the topological flow state of the space between two and three dimensions a reflection. The tool properties and additional characteristics of space, objects and materials, as well as the temporal factors of texture changes, are like the spatial transformation of painting and sculpture.