Beyond Babel — Li Dezhuang
Visual Arts
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Description
The title of the exhibition “Beyond Babel” comes from a story from Genesis 11:1-9 of the Tower of Babel, and suggests the merging of language and symbol, and a homogenous system of recognition. The story of Babel explains how the variation in human languages came about. According to the story, when God found out that people were building a tower that would reach heaven and make a name for themselves which would only lead them away from God, He thwarted their plans by scattering the people all over the face of the earth. Professor Pan Yaochang wrote that the word Babel “has connotations of confusion in language. So out of Babel, or in other words, Beyond Babel, means to overcome the obstacles of different languages, and realize the common understandings amongst different cultures.”
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2016" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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