Chen Yiding

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    Medium: Patterned Glass (Acrylic), Chemical Fiber Oil Canvas, Glass Mosaic Tile, Wooden Frame, Glass Film
    Dimension: Multiple specifications


    This project originated from my experience walking through a tourist site. Standing on a glass skywalk, I found myself perpetually excluded from the landscape by transparent barriers. The place I arrived at was not the “original” site in any geographical sense, but a position designated and named by the scenic system as the “best viewpoint.”

    Drawing on Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, in which he argues that contemporary reality is increasingly replaced by symbols and experience by images, I approach the landscape not as landscape itself but as its codified representation — a simulated structure predefined as an object for viewing. Within this hyperreal condition, looking no longer leads toward the real but merely circulates within a closed system of signs.

    I then photographed artificially constructed touristic sceneries in the real world and reconstructed them into image-sculptures in which the original visual focal points are obscured and distorted. My intention is to question how the act of looking is preconditioned and directed within a world saturated with fabricated objects. We are compelled to see through glass those things that should be within direct reach. Glass, imposed as an interface before us, alienates reality and deprives us of the right to confront the world directly. It asserts authenticity through its very transparency, yet in doing so, it conceals the possibility of genuine contact. Its presence is a constant reminder that what we see is not reality, but its simulacrum — a surface standing in for the real. Glass not only divides physical space but also establishes the power relation between the observer and the observed.



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