Sun Pei-Mao Participates in “Realities of Ignorance”: Museum

The concept of “ignorance” (avidyā) expounded in the Maha Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, also known as the Heart Sutra, refers to human being’s obsession with things in life, which is a source of mundane worries. Obsession is a form of ego, and refracts into myriads of thoughts, including fleeting ideas, feelings, memories and images that linger persistently in the human mind. Ignorance stemming from one’s obsession also indicates that one’s consciousness is still in a chaotic state, and lacks perceptiveness and understanding.

 

This exhibition features three artists – Wang Yu-Hsuan, Sun Pei-Mao, and Yen Yu-Ting, each of whom has and tries to tackle his or her obsessive thoughts through artistic creation. Their artistic approaches demonstrate fantastic, absurd, treacherous, and unruly characteristics. By intentionally interlacing exaggerated imaginations with real life, the artists deal with different encounters in life, or construct a more idealized world. Therefore, this fictitious, heterogeneous space of existence enables them to clarify their ways of thinking.