Making (Perfect) World is one of my favourite exhibitions so far. It is a collateral event organised by Hong Kong and is a solo exhibition of work by Pak Sheung Chuen. The show includes a number of humorous conceptual pieces, some of which are explained below.
In this work the artist found rocks around Venice that added up to his body weight. He then split them in two slightly unequal halves and connected each half with string - the heavier half supports the suspended weight of the lighter half.
This work is a collection of the artist's breath in plastic bags, collected over a period of time in an apartment (all of his breath during the stay in the apartment was collected).
This work was particularly fantastic - the artist went on a trip to Malaysia and kept his eyes shut or was blindfolded the whole time in order to experience the trip without vision. He took all his photos without looking, just by feeling. When he returned home he then viewed the trip through the photos. For the installation, these photos were in a completely black room - in order to view them you were asked to take in your camera and take a photo of them, which you could then view outside.
For this work the artist sat opposite a random apartment building and took 5 photos throughout the night, recording lights going out as people went to sleep. One person stayed up all night, so the artist shared a night with them, but from across the street.
The artist has done a number of works in libraries. For this work he went into a library (in NY I think) and turned the corner done on page 22 of half of the books in the library (something like 40,000).
Another library work - the artist went through a small library collection (6,000 books) and selected all books with full page images of the sea on their covers or inside covers and then joined the horizon lines of these together to create a circular 'sea'.
In this work the artist found rocks around Venice that added up to his body weight. He then split them in two slightly unequal halves and connected each half with string - the heavier half supports the suspended weight of the lighter half.
This work is a collection of the artist's breath in plastic bags, collected over a period of time in an apartment (all of his breath during the stay in the apartment was collected).
This work was particularly fantastic - the artist went on a trip to Malaysia and kept his eyes shut or was blindfolded the whole time in order to experience the trip without vision. He took all his photos without looking, just by feeling. When he returned home he then viewed the trip through the photos. For the installation, these photos were in a completely black room - in order to view them you were asked to take in your camera and take a photo of them, which you could then view outside.
For this work the artist sat opposite a random apartment building and took 5 photos throughout the night, recording lights going out as people went to sleep. One person stayed up all night, so the artist shared a night with them, but from across the street.
The artist has done a number of works in libraries. For this work he went into a library (in NY I think) and turned the corner done on page 22 of half of the books in the library (something like 40,000).
Another library work - the artist went through a small library collection (6,000 books) and selected all books with full page images of the sea on their covers or inside covers and then joined the horizon lines of these together to create a circular 'sea'.
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