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Shih Yung-Chun:Resume

Past exhibition
8 January - 6 February 2021 YIRI ARTS
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Shih Yung-Chun:Resume

I'm always confused about the time of my birth, as it seems to be noon, then I heard it's dusk. This is not very important, but I can't get the real answer when my friends talk about the rising constellation. In the end, I just pick the one I like from the two answers, which is more practical than going to the Family Affairs Office to find the correct birth hour.

 

In an ordinary packaged routine, it is difficult to distinguish between the truth and false of human behaviors, and the environment can be virtual. Pretending to play a pleasing role, even if that role is fake, does not matter. The important thing is to look the way you want to look in your heart, or the way others want to see you. The only real thing is the intimate personal information: name, age, gender, height, the circumference of chest, waist, and hip, shoe size, and pupil color; it's like a biography. Every day when you face people other than yourself, it's an audition, and you need to meet the set persona in order to get the role, so you have to do your best to figure out the role.

 

If there is a standard for "ideal life criteria", then it is something easy to deal with: you can practice your daily life according to the established standard, and just follow the standard that is pleasing to the eye. The truth is not in consideration as no one really cares anyway. Only, those ideal lives that deviate from the real eventually become a mainstream, and you will have to continue to pretend until you are satisfied with it. After all, even the original real personal data can be easily changed, the color of your pupils has long since ceased to be the color at your birth, and even the gender can be changed according to your own preferences. The "real" thing seems trivial.

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