Fotanian Open Studio 2012 Flurry – Joint Exhibition of Yiu Chu-Tung & Wong Xiang-Yi
Visual Arts
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Sensible versus non-sensible; normal versus abnormal – human beings like to use these opposite binaries to define what it means by a ‘normal’ way of living. Nevertheless, what is known as normal is only a constraint sculpted by the modern social and cultural ideology which makes everyone follow the same direction to develop and to conform, disregarding all other way of living outside the acceptable frame. Just as Michel Foucault quoted in the preface of his writing ‘Madness and Civilization’, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said: “Men cannot use their imprisoned neighbour to affirm that they themselves are mentally stable.” In fact, many voices are buried within the so called ‘sensible’ power. One would have the question of whose belief it is that is restricting people from choosing other ways of living? It may now be time to reflect on this subject and to erase any thinking that is bounded by frames of the society.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2012" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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