Dear Nietzsche 致尼采
2023

This freestanding installation offers a 360-degree spectatorship of a surreal mise-en-scène, showcasing meat-like soft sculptures moulded from 2000 pieces of Wrigley’s and 40 boxes of Hubba Bubba chewing gum as a visual allegory. This work explores the liminal spaces (the in-between/ gaps) that exist during transitions, which could be physical, emotional, or metaphorical. Although these liminal spaces can feel eerie, uneasy and difficult to detect, they occur frequently such as when we change roles, identities, or as simple as making an unfamiliar turn. And one of these uneasy ‘spaces’ taking place in intimate relationships, where intangible violence and power abuse occur.

The artist identifies these inescapable gaps when examining lost identities, forgotten histories, and intimate narratives within marginalized communities. These fragments of psychological catharsis are often compiled in sets of autoethnographic poems, referencing the characters in Friedrich Nietzsche’s chapter "The Three Metamorphoses". The eerie sculptures and performance serve as a subversive tool to confront issues such as personal politics, sex, violence, sacrifice, taboo, and religion.

此自立式裝置給予觀衆一個全方位角度去觀摩一個離奇又熟悉的環境，把兩千片綠箭和四十盒 Hubba Bubba香口膠的糖分和彈性洗去後，再塑造貌似腐肉的軟裝置，並依附在一個改做的鐵藝床架上。後其意義是一個公開生命的閾限空間和狀態。此空間常難用言語清晰表達，卻以一個不可避免的細縫存在于實體空間中，精神中，比喻中。每一個陌生的轉角，日常如角色轉換也是人反復經歷此閾限空間的狀態，可反復產生微小怪異而令人恐懼的感覺。此作品反映的閾限空間來自於兩性關係中的暴力和權斗上，往往在私密的房間内發生。

從深透邊緣化群體裏失去的身份和歷史，收集的私密内容部分轉換成詩詞，並以回應哲學家尼采一書中的『精神三變』，試圖探討跨越深淵的方法。其怪異的軟雕塑裝置和行爲是一個正視社會議題的包括對個人政治、性、暴力、犧牲、禁忌和宗教價值觀的實踐。