Plastic Surgery Project
整形計畫


2013
2 channels video projection , 13’11”
雙頻道影像

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Venus, a symbol of classical image of beauty, which appears in the form of plaster statue for art school students to practice still object sketch.

As we copy this image of beauty that visualized before Christ in female form, we also practice to reproduce the real and beauty.  If this standard practice (of producing beauty) encounters the contemporary art, would either of them be any different?

Or, if we look at how art is perceived at all time and in all places, how art is portrayed within our constant debate, we can re-recognize how the external force that we labor in our construction of the concept of art.

A plastic surgeon somehow can be the double of a sculptor in terms of what they do: they reshape things they see according to their personal taste and the received standard.

雕塑與整形；兩者皆在手操作的狀態下實踐「美」，試圖在當代社會的語境下將雕塑家與整形醫師並置對照，在對話過程中回溯美感經驗、標準的建立等等。藉由作品中來回的提問共同面對「美」這項古老命題，並夾雜著現代醫學、文化、社會、歷史的脈絡切入面向，「美」如何成形，又如何成了不斷流變的動態名詞。