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Diverged
Tongue
January 29 - February 18 1999 |
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Inspired
by a toy whistle that becomes longer by blowing out, Shen Yuan created
the large-scale work with this same mechanism. The huge tongue suspended
from the ceiling of the gallery provides a feeling of non-presence
in the space when it is rolling up, then all sudden menaces the visitor
on blowing down. And, the top of this tongue is forked. In Chinese
sayings, "Curled up tongue" or "Diverged tongue" means
the lingual sounds of the different races caused by trilling a tongue
in a mouth, and also means that speaking unclearly as one who has
a diverged tongue tries to say two different things at once. This
raises the issue of the migration related with the people who live
in a foreign country in new reality of the society at our times,
which associated with the isolated position with difficulties of
expressions by their ambiguous and unclear words.
Shen Yuan stayed at CCA Kitakyushu as a professor of the Research
Program from December 16, 1998 to January 31, 1999. |
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