Unit 1 project proposal
Title
Probe into people's uneasiness about intimacyin modern society
Aim&objectives
I'm very interested in the mental and emotionalaspects. At first, I found inspiration from myself, and find common ground from people around me, which leads to thinking.
In modern society, the indifference of the interpersonal relationshiphas been established. With the disintegration of acquaintance society, intimacy retreats into the narrow area of the traditional family. In the indifferent society, most strangers don't like the close emotional relationship but pursue the sense of distance. The phenomenon of modern society is that people feel uneasy about intimacy, which leads to the weakening of interaction ability and intimacy ability.As a result, they start to self-close and rely more on external tools (Internet).
The initial composition of the project is the combination of oil painting, wall painting, and sculpture. The first project is about constraints, and the second will be about redemption.
Resources, materials, and support
I will observe and record the loneliness and atmosphere in my daily life through photography and drawing, and then integrate it into my works.
And I get a lot of emotional feedback from many people around me, such as friends, relatives, and even strangers. Most people have a deep resonance with this. Some people have certain psychological trauma. They want to keep their inner peace and innocence, but they can't break away from the sequelae brought by this trauma. They feel lonely and isolated when life changes. I will record their feedback and their behavior, and put these into my works.
And I also look at other artists, I have a resonance in their works
Andrew Wyeth (paintings)
VilhelmHammershoi (paintings)
Bruno Valbert (sculptures)
Louise Bourgeois (sculptures)
Eva Hesse (sculptures)
Antony Gormley (sculptures and drawings)
Methods
I will try various forms, not limited to oil paintings, but also make some small sculptures or images.
I'm going to create five to six small sculptures and put them in different positions in the corner. Everbody is tiny in the world, you need to look closely then you can find them and understand them. And the outside of each sculpture is wrapped with black wires (or bandages, earphones, wire). It’s like “get enmeshed in a web of one’s own spinning”. This state is like a state of self-closing, self-binding and self-protection, but is it self-protection or self-injury? In fact, they suffer a lot of pain and constraints while protecting themselves.
I will put the abstract pattern into the concrete reality scene and explore the relationship between the real existence and non-existence. It seems absurd, but actually reasonable. “What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.” In Hegel’s view, much of reality is unreal, and only the existence that conforms to the concept is true. I think that although emotions are difficult to express in concrete objective reality, they are real. Loneliness is a feeling and experience of subjective self-consciousness and isolation from others or society, not an objective state.
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