This is a travel of a man meeting with another body. It seems like an interaction between human and inhuman: the light white silk, the bamboos, and the Chinese buttons. But the scenes make an illusion as if the man is leaded into a body of a female. When the space and scale are changing, things that we are familiar with are observed from new points of view. Nobody has such a experience traveling through a female’s interior, crossing the silk fluttering in the breeze, the veiling being opened over and over again, and the water rippling. Passing through the winding channels, the man is thinking of human, body, and woman.
This work is inspired by some elements.
1. Chinese garden is famous for its complicated spatial structure and the unity of opposites between substance and nihility.
2. One of the four famous Chinese classics Dream of the Red Chamber shows the intricate interpersonal relationship of a feudal family in ancient China, which describes multiple characters of female from the perspective of a man.
3. Two Korean films Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) and The Isle (2000), created by Ki-duk Kim, a South Korean director, reveal the spirit of Zen and oriental aesthetics through natural landscape and specific objects, by means of metaphor and personification.
This work was a finalist of CA'ASI Chinese New Architectural Exhibition, held in the Twelfth Venice Biennale of Architecture with the theme "People Meet in Architecture" in 2010.