Text/ Wang Guan-Jhen
"Breathing Ghost" is an exhibition comprising new oil paintings I have been practising since March of 2020. I perceived a novel experience which I hadn't discovered while using acrylic paints. From the encounters with paint and canvas, we each carry some sense of unknown, ignorance, and uncertainty, which combine to fictionalise a series of landscapes according to everyday observation.
Amongst the works on show will be "House of Ignorance", formed of acrylic paintings from 2014 - 2019. I wouldn't call it a painting installation but instead describe it as a valley suffused with the otherworldly glow of imagination, simultaneously reflecting transitions between mediums. Similarly, "A Collection of Fragments", made between 2014 - 2020, transcribes from daily imagination using acrylic and pencils on irregular canvases. That is in which the shifting medium and overflowing consciousness that evolves across works is a manifest of ghosts.
How I was drawn,
where the place is placed,
those shared and concealed stories,
a lot of things are learned later,
I do not know what I thought when I made that stroke,
why we are in this body,
said the ghosts in the hidden house.
