Title: Where am I
Year: 2020
Size: 160 x 120 cm
Technique: Oil on linen
Description:
The stretcher covered with grey-green fabric is the painting itself that in front of the viewer, the artist tries to realise the contradictory concept of ‘presenting a hidden painting’. He tries to indicate that the text itself in the painting is also the questioner who asks ‘where am I’ in the title. The answer may be the fabric in the painting (i.e. the printing or embroidery existing on the fabric), or the canvas itself of the whole painting (i.e. the text in the painting could also be a piece of pigment attached to the canvas as a material attribute). Then the content ‘I'm here’ becomes the answer to the question in the title. The word ‘here’ not only implies the two possibilities mentioned above, but could also be endowed with more likelihoods such as a particular context (studio, exhibition hall, online virtual space, etc) that the painting stays. Here the image provides its own metalanguage. The form of ‘Q & A’ arouses the viewer's thoughts about the instability and rationality of the context where the painting object is located.