Arrangement (编)

Arrangement is an installation that’s designed in response to the exhibition series “Go To Your Art Gallery” at Fei Arts in Guangzhou, China. It explores how the prescribed language of a space choreographs our movements and actions within it. ​Visitors are invited to alter the language of the gallery space by rearranging signs and symbols to create new meanings.

Signs guide us: “Entrance” and “Exit” construct an authoritative, if invisible, architecture. In Arrangement, this prefixed power is distributed to all present, where signs can be duplicated, recombined, and replaced. ​Through rearrangement, the signs regain their status as images and text, while retaining the visual authority of their original form, granting absurd power to their new syntax. These reimagined signs coexist and collide with their original versions, confusing any definitive path and questioning the embedded monotone. In this multitone of voices, language returns to ourselves.

编是一个落地于广州扉美术馆的互动装置，是“去你的美术馆”系列展览的一部分。来这里的人，都可以动手重新排列空间里的各种标识和符号、一起改写美术馆的“说话方式”。 ​ 从“入口”入，从“出口”出，我们默认地遵守着理所当然的路线，在这个门厅里不自觉地照章行事；而这些符号，用一种无形的语言指挥着来访者的身体，铸出了一个没有实体的空间。

在这个集体装置的语境中，标识中预设的特权被分散于众：每个人都可以复制、重组、重置这些符号。一方面，符号回归于自身，重新成为图像与文字；另一方面，重组的符号仍旧呈现原本内置权利的标识性设计。这些重组或碎片的标识与初始的标识共存在同一个视野之中：在混杂的多声部里，单一的语调被稀释，语言回归参与者自身。