MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art
Chang Liu
In the past year, my creative work has centred around “the intertwining of faith and desire, the everyday and the sublime”. Through the medium of sculpture, installation and video, I have tried to challenge and reconstruct traditional religions and transform them into visual experiences.
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YI want to delve deeper into the faith dimension. It refers to the content and meaning associated with faith, religion, and spirituality as presented in a work of art. This combination of biology and faith is, in fact, a response to the growing awareness of the human body and self in modern society. In contemporary art, the body as a medium of expression is increasingly used to explore issues of identity, gender, and power.
With eyelashes at the centre of my work, I have created a virtual mythological system of the Eyelash God that explores the delicate relationship between desire, belief and destiny. The work shows an interdimensional bazaar full of mystery and magic, where people try to control their own destiny by believing in the Eyelash God. While challenging the dichotomy between the sacred and the secular in traditional religions, it also explores how human beings construct and communicate their beliefs by endowing objects with symbolic meanings.
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Eyelashes, as part of the human body, represent biology and life force. The biological element is not only a symbol of the physical body, but also a symbol of vitality and reproduction. By sanctifying the tiny biological element of the eyelash, I seek to explore the relationship between the human body and faith. This process made me think about how the body, as a container of faith, expresses the spiritual needs inherent in human beings through specific biological elements.
The connection between faith, surrealism, religious symbolism and biological elements, as reflected in the creation of “God of Eyelashes”, is a multi-layered intertwining. By combining these elements, I am trying to explore a new mythological system, in which everyday objects are endowed with sacredness, biological elements become the medium of faith, and the surrealistic approach makes it all seem absurd but full of deep meaning. This new mythological system is not only a deconstruction and reconstruction of traditional religions and myths, but also a reflection on the spiritual state of contemporary mankind.
I have used 3D printing to create a range of biomorphic translucent organisms. In two of them I added lighting elements, I wanted to incorporate cyberpunk as well as surrealist elements, which are also relevant to my field of interest.
