Zeng Fengxuan

“Read me, please” ("请阅读") aims to answer and echos the epistemology, cognitive differences, and the deconstruction and reconstruction of established meanings in current times. From a sculptural perspective, the light grey sinuous platforms are stacked and connected, standing independently on the ground and holding up a number of small objects. Their forms are the result of dialogues between books and public and private space. These discussions sometimes attract attention, some go unnoticed, and it is in this gathering that books are both present and absent. Within the realm of fixed logic, they are inevitably overlooked, only to be resurrected with renewed significance through novel dialogues and contextual constructs. So, how can the presence of books and other entities be apprehended?

The Paradigmmies on the top, the rigid geometrical forms and elusive irregular shapes, both oscillate amidst truths and truths, finding stability within fragmented and hearsay definitions, without exception. One Paradigmmy proclaims itself as mountains and rivers, yet echoes the quadratic equations of yore. It claims to be Saturn, existing in every second line of coffee shop menus, and thus its oscillations diminish, while CMYK values gradually align. In this way, it declares that all of this is an immutable reality.


The four grey sculptural forms consist of hollow geometric shapes at the top and solid hemispheres at the bottom. The cover briefs them as if it is the block standing ahead. The audience experiences the work by walking around it and poking them to make them sway. Chapters “hear” words and wobble along but remain stubborn on the determined path. How do you identify the shapeless road and the cognitive box when the world is moving? So, making briefs and extracts by painstakingly swimming backwards against the current of time seems an easier way, tasting the fountain of memory and archive of the world, guessing the answer behind the cover of the book. 

The book serves as the guidebook of "definition of meaning". Mind Changeology, re-questioning the meaning of words and symbols, the discourse in the book serves as a "reference" metaphor for thinking patterns. The complex and fragmented image pieces filled the video， which interacted with the audience by not understand the work. The panic and anxiety brought about by this uncertainty make the guiding program "Change Your Mind" join the dialogue between the video and the audience, in order to decipher the information. The tripartite game among the book, video and the audience discusses the possibility of constantly thinking about the definition of meaning outside the original context.

The definition of meaning is abstract, and what we expect is a concrete representation of meaning."What's the point of this matter?", does the question make sense?If so, who gave it meaning?What if a thing was given meaning but changed instead?If everything can change one's mind, what's the point of giving meaning?