Abstract:
How do we realise what is reality and what is fiction? Can art be a kind of technology to help humans escape the feeling of being objectified in a globalized and hyper-technological world? The world of Searching the Sky for Dreams aims to take us to an invisible space where we dream with art, and experience discontent with the reality, in ways disconnected from the distraction and information. What could it mean to make paintings now? These paintings have many lives which are parts of the author’s life. The artist’s subjective vision and activity go through the processes taking place in the life-world. If painting needs time to live, it also needs time to dream, to connect via networks to draw upon its history as influenced by everyday life, design, technology, literature and music. During the short duration the spectator encounters the work, they might look, feel or dream, it’s up to them. I hope they move beyond aesthetics towards discovering something new, something different from the reality that they’ve known. The room where the paintings occupy can be considered as a transitional space from institution to the outside world, and bring the spectator from everyday life to the art world. These paintings are composed intuitively and stand together to become enveloped by their whole, ebbing and flowing through the air. One might experience a subtle shift between two worlds – the real world and another world in which one can build upon imaginations and dreams. Is this real life? Is this fantasy?