400 Discarded Objects
Acrylic Printing
2m*2m 4pieces
2020.04
The industrial revolution that began in the second half of the eighteenth century advocated the replacement of handicraft manufacture with machines. The industrialized production model has made objects more and more like snowballs. the relationship between objects and humans has gradually changed. Nowadays, we use objects to prove our identity and status. Some of us believe that we gradually become slaves of objects; they bound us.
On this basis, some Japanese scholars proposed a concept called “Danshari”, which could be understood as refusal, disposal and separation. To cut off, to let go, and to move on. The relationship between humans and objects are seen as a “fate”.we need to accept that the world we are in is constantly changing, we need to let things go away with the fate, we need to be calm when we are losing someone or something. Uncertainty is the fate that we need to accept, no need for sorrow.
However, during this global pandemic, when our right to communicate with people is deprived, we can only stay alone with our objects. These "friends" who are familiar with us seem to have become a vivid life. At this time, a new relationship between people and objects is being formed.
When we are unable to communicate with the outside world for months during quarantine, these containers of time and space provide you with the convenience of daily life and become your friend, your comfort. Objects are more crucial than ever before, and this phenomenon has never been considered as now. Now, "Danshari" has become a contradictory concept. The dependence of people on objects is reasonable. Objectives are a kind of existence representing warmth. Everyone has unique and different emotions for each object, and this emotion is worth being valued and respected.
Because of the pandemic, I must leave my place and return to my hometown. The work- 400 discarded objects contains 400 items that I have to discard. Each recorded image of the objects can be viewed by the audience since they were printed 20cm*20cm.Under the influence of uncertainty and random changes in the disaster, 'unforgettable past, the anxiety of future and escape from reality' are all manifested in the behavior of "discarding these 400 items". There is a type of sorrow like losing a friend when these objects are being discarded." feeling sad to discard objects" is a very common psychological phenomenon. The recording of this behavior is not in the purpose of nostalgia, but a re-statement of the relationship between people and objects.
In a peaceful age, uncertainty is hailed as a "fate." But in the pandemic nowadays, I just understand that the "uncertainty" is the root of all suffering—no need for praising.
