I Mahjong You (2019)

-Installation

Installation, Colorless Mahjong on Acrylic, 44 cm x 42 cm,
Exhibited @ In-situ, Hong Kong, Aug 2019

This artwork has [no] intentions.
This artwork has [no] meanings.
This artwork has [no] stories.

This artwork has an artist.
I chose the object: the Mahjong.
I put and arranged all these objects in place.

The medium itself tell storie(s).
The object itself tell storie(s).
This artwork has audience.

You are watching it.
You are judging.
You are thinking what the fxxx this piece is presenting.

This work explores the semiotics of an installation.

If the ways of linguistic communication of human are language and sign, and the ways of communication through music are note and frequency, then the ways of communication through an installation could be its presentation (visual or/and audio). The medium(s), the object(s) and the arrangement, form meanings and stories.

Choosing the Mahjong tiles as the object in this art piece based on only its rich cultural ties to Hong Kong, a familiar object that I believe every Hong Kong person knows, this work aims to remove any implication of anything personal, social nor cultural. Masking the Mahjong tiles by erasing all its color is asking how an object’s representation tells its stories and what the contribution of an artist does in an (art)work.