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2015
Myopia
百呎公園 | 100ft. PARK Gallery
Hong Kong
MYOPIA is a journey into the act of narrow-mindedness shaped by seeing our mind and body brought to its stillness.
The project begins with a spatial condition of the transparent glass wall that separates two spaces: a gallery and a street. Pedestrians often pass by the gallery. They notice something occasionally, but not enough to change the course of their journey, so they continue.
The objective here is to divert this pattern of relationship using the wall as a means of interacting with the streetscape. The intervention is a mediator that facilitates a scene in which our body becomes a part of the performance of “seeing” or “being seen.”
The installation consists of a reflector, viewfinder, and reticle. Each element is brought together as a moment in space. The temporal nature of the installation is contrasted with their resolute stillness as objects, suggesting that what is presented here is merely a single instant from a multitude of unknown and variable scenes.
As we get closer to MYOPIA, our body gradually adjusts to the installation's stillness. Our perceptual sense increases as our movement becomes still; we become a part of the scene by mimicking its silence and immobility to understand the totality of it all.
To see is to surrender
To observe is to suspend.
