Transcendence
Medium: Installation
Size: 65 X 50 CM
Completion Date: 12th March 2013
This is a work about "Perfection"
"PERFECTION IS NOT JUST ABOUT CONTROL, BUT ALSO ABOUT LETTING GO. SURPRISE YOURSELF SO YOU CAN SURPRISE THE AUDIENCE, TRANSCENDENCE."
Quoted from "Black Swan" movie, the art director Tom told the next chef Ballerina Nina, as a remark to remind Nina, who desiring for getting "perfect", but has to first learn to let go a little. Black Swan is a Mental Thriller movie with Horror Elements, with the background of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" performed by a famous New York ballet troupe. The dance troupe needs a dancer who can carry both the white swan, naive and fragile and the dark, lustful evil twin sister black swan. Although Nina is the perfect candidate for white swan, the new join-in dancer Lily can reflect the role of the black swan better. Nina got herself in need of greater competitiveness, leaving her under tremendous pressure and overwhelmed, eventually causing her to lose control of her own vulnerability in real life, falling into the nightmare of life and eventually losing her life.
Another major inspiration for Transcendence is the VERTICAL SUBMARINE, a piece created by Singaporean artist. The work consists of two rooms, with a false mirror in the middle of the room creating a reflection, and the reflected room is a slightly different with a replacement of elements.
The art installation tried to explore how humans want to be "perfect," and eventually end up with unimaginable mental and physical harm, but they still feel worthy.
I decided to use the above inspiration to create a work based on the reflection of two rooms, one from the black swan perspective and the other from the white swan. This strong contrast reflects a desire to achieve "perfection". I want the audience to go through the two rooms to understand and feel it. As the audience enters the white swan room, viewers can see how Nina is going to become the chef ballerina, and you'll see that she stole the lip balms of the former chef ballerina Beth; however, as they end the room of black swan, audiences will immediately feel "perfect". For example, the spirit get crazier, plus the perfection drive elements are very beautiful. However, the pressure maximised to the most, along with the most painful and the intense damage.
The art installation tried to explore how humans want to be "perfect," and eventually end up with unimaginable mental and physical harm, but they still feel worthy.
I decided to use the above inspiration to create a work based on the reflection of two rooms, one from the black swan perspective and the other from the white swan. This strong contrast reflects a desire to achieve "perfection". I want the audience to go through the two rooms to understand and feel it. As the audience enters the white swan room, viewers can see how Nina is going to become the chef ballerina, and you'll see that she stole the lip balms of the former chef ballerina Beth; however, as they end the room of black swan, audiences will immediately feel "perfect". For example, the spirit get crazier, plus the perfection drive elements are very beautiful. However, the pressure maximised to the most, along with the most painful and the intense damage.
The use of Installation art can create life-size atmosphere, enable audiences to feel, compared with the use of film imagery, in which ordinary mediums cannot portray the same pressure and change. This work, at the same time, is reflection and record that one heart wants to be perfect.
