Wu Meng-Chang

Working from intuition and experience, he identifies the best way to negotiate the uniqueness of each stone through actions such as penetrating, paring, fragmenting and joining. He attempts to accentuate the originality of the stone by preserving their cracked facades, treating them as the post-fractural relicts and traces found in nature. This relationship is entirely based on a sort of primordial dependency that can be seen as method of communication between the artist and the stone – a duality between destruction and innovation.

Veiled within interstitial spaces, his work explores the amalgamation and coexistence of relative relationships, as well as the integration between the formal and the spiritual space. It is precisely within this paradoxical dynamic that a sense of harmony and serenity may begin to emerge. In the end, it is to be hoped that the viewers may sense the same naturalness and harmony experienced by the artist himself, as well as the intangible yet real spiritual space that extends far beyond said harmony.

Text courtesy Double Square Gallery