Industrial Rubbing

Rice paper, Ink ,Charcoal, Performance Documentary 

I secretly went to the factories in the industrial area to undergo the inscription rubbing process. The traces from the actual signboards are mostly company’s name and trademark. The habit of collecting images from my surroundings in certain degree is to look for a way to decorate my style.

By represent images through the act of inscription rubbing, when it was exhibited in other places, the summoned meaning will be clearer. As I started to imagine it as an act to exhibit painting and calligraphy works, it already is a declaration. Like the history that we possess, what we have in certain degree is the exhibition of fake painting and calligraphy work, where they actually are names and logos of modern industry.

In my viewpoint, "Industrial Rubbing" is the method of linking my engagement in artistic creation and the growing background of the industrial area, which action itself plays an important role. Apart from the process of rubbing the text or content of the brand, action involves replacing the seemingly empty shell of the original industrial brand with another application at certain location. Actually, those industrial brands have supported Taiwan's economic miracle with large quantity of exportation in the past, and up to now, the manufacturing industry still stubbornly exists in the instant moment. As Taiwan has entered into the status of modernization, such condition appears to be as inopportune as the rubbing action. Accordingly, this work rethinks the issue of "brand without any name" produced by the manufacturers collectively, as well as the "demand of a name of the brand" for differentiation after becoming a product. As such, in regard of the gap, I interpret the "art action" with utilization of the unrecognized rubbing action in reality. 


















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