Zen Teh

The Range of Expanse​

By Zen Teh & Hera (2018)

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120 cm (L) x 18 cm (H) x 6 cm (W)

inclusive of fabric mount; width of artwork is based on the thickness of the rolled up scroll  

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This artwork reflects upon the distance of the gaze. It builds upon the genre of landscape as a human construct that is resultant from the gaze, thus distinct from nature. The artwork consists of three handscrolls with digitally manipulated photographic compositions, exploring the poetics of mountain and water expanse. During the Song dynasty China, painting theorist Kuo Hsi and Han Zhuo speaks of distances that pertains to the height, vastness, as well as elusiveness and bewilderment in landscape paintings. What could farness mean to us today? Or are we bound by a rational perspective and vocabulary?

 

 

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辽勘

 

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作品反映了远眺所感受到的距离感。作品创作灵感源于山水画，相对于客观现实的自然景观，作品呈现出的效果是由人的主观意识的视角构建而成的。通过三份经过数码处理的摄影作品制作而成的卷轴，作者探索山与水所展现的辽阔诗境。北宋著名画家郭熙曾提出 山水画中“三远” 的巧妙构图，“高远、深远、平远”。尔后，韩拙亦提出了“阔远、迷远、幽远”的深邃布局。而今，“远”对我们来说，又有怎么样的意涵。抑或，我们对于远的认知，都被理性与有限的字汇所束缚了。