Folding Vesuvius
2021
Published on the occasion of Variations of Assembly as part of CURRENT a collaborative project between Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen
Published on the occasion of Variations of Assembly as part of CURRENT a collaborative project between Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen
Created and written specifically for this exhibition the poems and images in the artist’s publication Folding Vesuvius explore modes of assessment folded within and often away from managerial systems. Presented in Chinese (translated by Chen Dongbiao) and English, the poems initiate an indistinct zone in which metaphors bend and knowledge systems become supple. Distorting linear navigation whilst facilitating and coping with difficulty, the poems and images in Folding Vesuvius offer a sensory reaching from the body amid the mundane.
