Excerpts 一句

The “excerpts” project is about the predictable and unpredictable messages conveyed by the installation artworks which interact with media of the exhibition site, i.e., the artist, the books, the covers and the words written inside, to redefine the identities of the viewers .

Audience selects a book at the bookstore site. The book may have been read by him/her before and well-liked; or it may just be casually seen but the cover gives a special feeling for him/her; or it may be a book he/she owned and then borrowed by others. The audience brings the books to the site of art studio, turn the leaves and cover his/her faces with the books. Allow me to photo their portraits. Then, from the randomly selected page, he/she shall select a paragraph of the text. This paragraph will be imprinted on the back of his/hers portrait, much like a stage line. Afterward, I will append a message that I “read” when I saw this person to the end of the paragraph.

I am much intrigued by the incidences and casual encounters occurring in our daily scenes; just like you’ll never know which sentence in the book will become your line--an excerpt of your life segment.

如果人的臉孔消失了，取而代之的是書本與文字，你會怎麼閱讀這個人？

「一句 Excerpts」計畫是關於可預和不可預的訊息，藉著展覽現場的媒介：藝術家、書本、封面與文字摘錄，重新定義身份的裝置作品，也意在製造多種層次的閱讀。

也許是讀過且非常喜歡，或是偶然看見，對封面特別有感覺，也可能是曾經擁有後來借出去的……讀者在書店現場挑選這樣的一本書，帶到ART STUDIO，打開書作為自己的臉，讓我拍下肖像。觀眾接著從偶然翻到的書頁，挑選一段文字，成為肖像背後的獨有台詞。而我會在這段文字之後，加上在這個人身上閱讀到的訊息，完成「一句」。