Fragments
Visual Arts
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“Fragments are natural, inevitable, but fragmentation is not inevitable. It is the result of the accumulation of events. When things are too fragmented, they never attract much attention in our lives, but when fragments appear in a sudden, explosive moment, they become important events. Current events, natural disasters, human affairs, all of these things appear in this manner, like they want to fragment man’s will. Because they are so trivial, they waste and scatter a lot of people’s time and effort…..
…fragment is not an individual; it cannot be discussed in parts. It is a perspective, a perspective and a path that wants you to enter it. When a speck of dust gets in your eyelids, you realise its power and the strange feeling it brings you. You instinctively push it out of your eyelid. It is your enemy, an intruder. You cannot tolerate its presence in your eye. When it returns to its own space, it is once again merely a speck of dust. We are surrounded by dust, and it gets close to us in many ways, entering our bodies through our mouths and noses and hidden places. We are afraid of our environments because we are afraid of it. Fragments are a form of permeation, one that can penetrate any opening. When we are afraid, it is like they have swallowed our entire bodies….
… When we think about fragments, we often think about broken fragments with sharp edges. Those broken fragments are like new lives, fresh, shimmering, a bit piercing. Everyone has been a fragment like this, and then we all slowly pick up more fragments and become specks. Then thousands of these specks gather together, pressing each other, forming a collective will. And when these specks are spread out onto every street in the city, the collective will becomes fragments. You become powerless, and can no longer sing the chorus. You are still just a speck. What can a speck do, anyway?”
Artists：Anne Babe; Jiang Didi; Liu Bin; Liu Jianhua; Na Buqi; Xie Nanxing; Xie Qi; Wang Yiqiong; Yang Qian
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2010" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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