On Display
2020

      


Directory, 2020
Steel, magnets, acetate 
21” x 60” 


      

On Display (1), 2020
Steel, magnets, engraved plexiglass
18” x 18” x 72”
Engraved text:
(Top) the Author (Middle left) when he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then he speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things (Middle right) the deceptive are the intelligent and those able to deceive (Bottom) The idea becomes a machine that makes art. This kind of art is not theoretical or illustrative of theories; it is intuitive, it is involved with all types of mental processes and it is purposeless



On Display (2), 2020
Steel, magnets, engraved plexiglass
18” x 18” x 72”
Engraved text:
(Top) It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form
(Bottom front) The birth of
(Bottom back) the death of




On Display (3), 2020
Steel, magnets, engraved plexiglass
18” x 18” x 72”
Engraved text:
(Top) the reader
(Middle) Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art
(Bottom left) What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves
(Bottom right) when the eyes see something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. Beauty brings copies of itself into being



In an ideal installation, there will be a grouping of six shelves scattered in an open space. The simplicity of the space will allow the shelves to become the sole physical structure of the installation. The viewers can walk around but also in-between the individual shelves as they navigate themselves in different literary references. They might need to tiptoe or crouch down to read the text on plexiglass. Their reflections on the plexiglass ask the viewers how they posit themselves both in the act of viewing and in the history of literary criticism.



Off Display, 2020
Engraved plexiglass
Size variable
In an ideal installation, the installation space will be an open space filled with different inscribed panels. The shelves from On Display will be installed in the center of the space and different panels will be stacked on the floor leaning against the shelves or against the wall. The stacked panels ask the viewers to think about the relationship between different panels, how their ideologies overlap or how they contradict each other. These panels have the same sizes as the ones on the shelves. They could be on the shelves but instead they are left on the floor. By showing them along with the shelves, I ask the viewers to rethink what references are appropriate to apply and what ideologies we want to accept.


Jennifer Chia-Ling Ho
何珈寧

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    Collage series
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    A Dialogue Practice
    Against Interpretation
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