The Second Highest Section
"The Second Highest Section" is LIN’s first solo exhibition
held in the academy. The "Second Highest" in the name of the
exhibition does not point to a specific position but a rhetoric relative to an
absolute "core." At the same time, the "section" is a
longitudinal cut from this extension. The vertical surface of the section not
only creates a close experience to the objects but also regards as a process of
getting along with questions before having “the answers" from the core.
Section I
black iron, scout rope, wooden boards, picture tube, footprints on the
wall
and two sets of single-channel video
dimensions
variable, 22’48’’,12’19’’
2015
In "Section One", I designed a large swing device that fits
the exhibition room's entrance size and performed it on the device.During the process, I was swinging barefoot between the exhibition
room's entrance and the wall on a swing. When I was about to hit the wall, I
kicked the wall with my body's strength, and through the recording video, the
current behaviour could be repeated over and over again in the exhibition hall.
Section II
black iron, wooden boards, metal handles, paint, and sensor lights
dimensions
variable
2015
"Section two" takes the seesaw movement and transforms it
into a path of constant space. At the static moment, the audience can observe
the tilting state formed by the direction of the seesaw's fulcrum: one end
raises, and the other end is deeply submerged into the dark space. When the
audience operates the seesaw to balance, the room at the other end will be
illuminated by the sensor device, as if it is about to reveal the original
invisible uneven placement to the audience. However, the other
end of the seesaw had already been painted to make it look the surrounding
space. Through this outcome, the audience's eyes are like driving in a dark
tunnel for too long, the appearance of things on the other end is evaporated in
the light, making it impossible to distinguish.
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