Vinn Feng: Transient

Transient comprises ten prints, one installation and 30 sculptural works, including 20 of which and the prints are created exclusively for the exhibition. These sculptures are shaped in irregular, organic forms that seem to be moving on their own. Feng explains the forms and patterns on both her print works and sculptural works, transforming intriguing objects in real life into her sketches and developing those sketches back to her sculptural works. Through this process of 2D>3D>2D, Feng is able to give the original objects a new meaning and find joy from within. Feng also encourages the audience to come up with their association while looking at the works.

The room-size installation work ‘We have to be very strong if we want to do something very wrong,’ 2015, is also selected to celebrate the relevance of representative work in a conceptual world. The name of this exhibition ‘Transient, is an extension of the installation work ‘We have to be very strong if we want to do something very wrong. The room is created with an innovative material Mylar and LED lights, where the audience is invited to immerse into the space of reflection and mystic lighting. Fractions of distortional reflected images caused from the movement of the audience as one walks through the installation move toward a new level of abstraction; the artist invites the audience to contemplate questions about what is real and what is an illusion from these constant transient changes of perception.

As a solo traveller from a young age, Feng focuses on transforming her social experiences worldwide into different visual riddles. Her sculptural works deconstruct physical and mental elements to encode the indescribable feelings about interpersonal communication, both playfully and thoughtfully, Through the colours and shapes that convey a sense of lightness and ephemerality. Feng hopes to unfold, envelop, and question the unsaid and the underneath. Yet, she does not intend to decode the riddles; instead, she lets them flow, stay in-between, and left unsaid in an intriguing way.

《Transient》展覧共展出Feng近年的一系列版畫、裝置作品及雕塑作品，當中20件雕塑及版畫均為藝術家為本次展覽創作的全新作品。其中的雕塑作品呈現隨著視角而不停變換的不規則形態，每一件作品都在靜中帶著韻律動感。藝術家解釋她的版畫作品和雕塑作品中的形狀和圖案來自於現實生活中的玩物。她從其中收到無數個平面圖形，並將這些平面圖形發展成作品的基础。通過將實體和平面的多次轉換賦予原來物體的部分及整體新的意義，呈現這過程中的變換樂趣。藝術家也鼓勵觀眾在觀看作品的同時擁有他們對其作品的想像。

展覧中的裝置作品“We have to be very strong if we want to do something very wrong”, 2015 則是把展覧中的其他作品的概念世界升華並擴展成現實中的空間。是次展覽的名稱《Transient》，也是“We have to be very strong if we want to do something very wrong” 的延伸。空間內採用創新材料MYLAR和 LED 燈管打造，邀請觀眾沉浸在光線隨意折射的神祕空間中。觀眾在裝置中由移動過程引起的空間與視覺扭曲，次方式反射的圖像會像碎片一般朝著一個新的抽象層次移動。藝術家邀請觀眾思考在這些轉瞬即逝的景象中感知真實與幻象的繁複交錯。

作為一個從幼年開始獨自旅行的人，Feng善於將她在社交中的外部經歷與內在體驗轉化為不同的視覺謎語，並通過色彩與形狀創造出專屬於她，輕盈並無常的敘事語言。對人際交往中難以形容的連接進行編碼，既俏皮又細緻。Feng希望尋找、藏匿和探究那些未被訴說的和暗湧著的。然而，她並不打算破解謎語。相反，她任謎語流動著；漂浮在局內與局外之間；以一種迷人的趣味感留白。