VANISHING POINT

by Le Lin

When I think of winter, I envision beautiful but ephemeral objects and a feeling that everything would eventually melt, be shoveled or swept away. All that remained would be the memory of these objects. In exploration of the atemporal, the impermanent, the ephemeral in winter, I also want to consider the more subversive side to this theme, rendering our transient experiences in contemporary conditions. The notion of everything eventually becoming obsolete is apparent in the everyday; geographical features, biological processes, and technology are all temporary. What I had in mind when putting together VANISHING POINT was to vividly express the feeling of this phenomenon: freezing a large block of ice, scanning the process of it melting and reproducing it through digital transformation. The demise or disappearance of the ice possesses an ‘inherent vice’ that reflects profoundly on the human condition. VANISHING POINT looks at implications that reach beyond artworld concerns with durable or at least preservable commodities. It offers an acute awareness of time but also a form of mourning for lost desire. It further acts as a means of engaging with bereavement, disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss.