$ 1,700.00
Angie Pai (b.1993, Taichung, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese artist based in Melbourne. Pai graduated from RMIT and is currently attending the University of Melbourne’s School of Psychological Sciences.
Her practice enquires about the hurdles of cultivating Buddhism and Taoism within contemporary contexts. Her familial kins often play critical roles, as they attempt to delineate ancient scriptures together to collaboratively discern the underlying utility-futility continuum of Eastern doctrines.
After studying Chinese history, Angie used traditional Chinese calligraphy and enamel to present the nine-tiered seals of the Qin Dynasty, China, in the Embed series. Here, she abandons the practicality of words and instead highlights the pictorial nature of Chinese characters as pictographs and the narrative nature of words as visual symbols. This “abstract” processing method of words corresponds to people’s perceiving experience in today’s information age. Her art transcends the existing figurative expressions and the general “abstract” expressions, presenting an evolved visual reference.
- 2017
- enamel on paper
- 76 x 56 cm
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