SHI YONG 施勇
b. 1963, works and lives in Shanghai
Each "word" is disassembled by strokes and reassembled to a new typeface in enclosing shape. They exist as objects of different materials and colors and be placed inside the metal frame space: they echo each other, but they are disconnected and closed, mutually inaccessible.
The idea of the concept comes from the fatal "defect" of COVID-19. Because of its break out, the world fell into sudden disconnects and become islands.
Detail pictures:
Perpetuity,
China Central Place, Shanghai
12.02, 2022
-01.14, 2023
Shi Yong: Turning Inward, Until Disappearing,
ShanghART, Shanghai
11.07, 2021
-02.15, 2022
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