Wei Po-Jen:Dark Wall

24 September - 22 May 2021 YIRI ARTS

"When examining the many bizarre rituals from primitive tribes and great civilizations of the past, these rituals lead people across those difficult gates of transformation-requiring both conscious and unconscious change in life patterns.... The so-called growth rituals that figured prominently in the life of primitive societies (rites of birth, naming, adulthood, marriage, burial, etc.) were brought to the fore by formal and very strict exercises of severance through which the mind was completely cut off from the attitudes, attachments and patterns of life of the previous stage.

 

This was followed by a long or short interval of withdrawal, when the established rituals were developed to introduce the life-adventurer to the forms and feelings inherent in his life, so that finally, when the time was ripe to return to the everyday world, the initiated person was reborn." The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

 

Inside the wall and outside the wall are two different stages of the journey, in which one feels what is around one and knows where one is. The wall is crossed, and the wall is recognized.

 

In the past, I attempted to use my own body to understand the influence of family relationships on people, and in each stage of creation, I reflected back and experienced those specific moments of memory again. This time, I try to integrate myself into everything, and use sound transmission to awaken subtle memories.