« My works have been adjusting the distance between me and the world, to make the faraway existences almost reachable. For the existences that are too close to see to focus, are made seen through a further distance created.
Maybe it’s a sort of tradition to express feelings through landscapes in China, where bodies and the aura of bodies have been described as landscapes as well. All the emotions and feelings are deeply hidden and coded with all sorts of landscapes.
Ji Kang, who is a talented artist from mid-third Century was described by his fellow writers like this:
“He’s proud and independent like an alone pine tree; but when drunk, he’s like a tall jade mountain that is about to fall. He is like the sound of wind rustling among the pine trees, high and soothing.”
I try to capture things that are not able to be captured. To capture a sense of fluidity, and flowing. When we talk about the body, the body is not just the body, it’s also a body of other things.
“Je est un autre.”
Mountains may depart. Tides, yes, breathing… »
