Florilegium ,Ruth, Li solo exhibition | 花譜 李如詩陶瓷個展



展出時間 | Time to Exhibit 2020.01/14-02/29

展出藝術家 | Artists 李如詩RUTH, LI

開幕時間 | Opening 2020.01/18 (六) 18:00 - 20:00開幕

工作坊 | Workshop 2020.01/17-1/18 13:00-17:30 (兩日)

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自古以來，儘管有大相逕庭的多元文化和歷史，我們都有著同一個永恆無常的執著：生命本身。這份執著支配、影響，甚至主宰著我們的集體行為、心理現象和精神、神經；尤其在認知到生命無常和面對終點時。然而，所有終點都是新的起點；不論達到這樣的重生是經過記憶、敘事和傳說的濃縮、生理變化或對物質及世俗的超越。從首見這些概念的聖經伊甸園故事汲取靈感，「花譜」乃集結龐大作品體系中的摘錄，融合傳統與歷史、現代與神話，為的是創造一種抽象的精神體驗，以及世界語言總合的表達。這是對生死的脆弱矛盾與自我之間關係的隱喻沉思，進而延伸至人類境況的過渡本質，從最初的烏托邦夢想到生命的實體共存，老化並逐步崩解，最終回歸塵土。

Throughout time, we – with all our far-reaching diverse cultures and histories – have always been obsessed with but one eternally ephemeral conceit: life itself. It is this preoccupation that dominates, influences and ultimately dictates our collective behaviors, psychologies and spiritual neurosis; especially in the wake of realizing life’s impermanence and facing its ending. Yet, with every ending there begins anew; whether such renewal is achieved through encapsulation via memory, narrative and myth, physical transformation, or transcendence beyond the tangible and the mundane.

Drawing inspiration from the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden where these concepts were first introduced, Florilegium refers to the gathering of extracts from a larger body of work manifested through a marriage of the traditional and the historical, the modern and the mythical, in hopes to create an abstract and spiritual experience as well as an expression of an integrated global language. It is a metaphorical meditation on the fragile paradox of life and death in relation to the self and extensions onwards to consider the transitory nature of the human condition – from the first dream of utopia, to the physical co-habitation of life, its aging and gradual decay, and lastly its return to the earth.