READING, AN OCEAN
Cheng Tsung FENG
ARCHITECTS
Cheng Tsung FENG
PROJECT DESIGNER
Yu Cheng SHEN, Chan Wei HSU
ARTIST
Cheng Tsung FENG
EXHIBITION CURATOR
Hsin Chih CHANG
LIGHTING DESIGN
Oude Light
PROJECT PRODUCTION
Chih Ying TANG, Yi Jun CHEN, Yi Fen WU, Cha Hui LIN, Ya Ting YANG, Hsiao Chih Hong
INSTRUCTOR
Taiwan Ministry of Culture
CO ORGANIZER
Shin Kong Life
ORGANIZER
Hsinchu City Government
CURATOR
Henghe Art and Creation Co., Ltd.
WOODEN STRUCTURE
Yumu Manufacture & Research
PHOTOGRAPHS
Fixer Photographic Studio
AREA
32 m²
YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Hsinchu, Taiwan (Roc)
CATEGORY
Temporary Installations
Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung FENG always focuses on traditional handcrafted culture. For the large-scale installation art for Hsinchu State Library, his subject is “Chinese Stitched Binding”, which is a kind of book binding method with a long history.
When the idea becomes text, the text falls on the paper, the paper is bundled through the rope, and it finally assembles together as a book.
FENG transforms this binding craft from a plane into a three-dimensional curving unit (over 1000 pieces), then he combines the library's space to create a giant installation just like a big wave that is facing to people.
After the exhibition is over, this work will be carefully disassembled into thousands of books.
FENG will hand-print the sketches and drawings of this work with numbers on the cover.
These books will leave the building with people and go everywhere. People will write their stories in books, just like the history of reincarnation here for a hundred years.
Reading is like an ocean, it is boundless and endless, and we are like riding a small boat, wandering in the sea, through reality and fiction, between different identities and to everywhere of the world.
