| The world is a man-made illusion. When you care about it, it is real. When you don’t, it becomes an illusion. The materials for making the installation piece Manufacturing Worlds are from a model-making factory that went bankrupt. I bought what’s left of their goods, which included a skyscraper, a plane, a cow, and military tanks. The process of creating such an installation was really interesting. The model-making factory made such vivid mock-ups without any logical relevance. I reorganized them to create something according to my own interpretation. Therefore, an absurd man-made world was born, full of emotions and logic. In fact, I didn’t make any choices in terms of material. I was just the window dresser who made the arrangements. |  |
Lu Jia-Wei
The world is a man-made illusion. When you care about it, it is real. When you don’t, it becomes an illusion. The materials for making the installation piece Manufacturing Worlds are from a model-making factory that went bankrupt. I bought what’s left of their goods, which included a skyscraper, a plane, a cow, and military tanks.
The process of creating such an installation was really interesting. The model-making factory made such vivid mock-ups without any logical relevance. I reorganized them to create something according to my own interpretation. Therefore, an absurd man-made world was born, full of emotions and logic. In fact, I didn’t make any choices in terms of material. I was just the window dresser who made the arrangements.
As the models look so real in the installation, people tend to instinctively examine them according to the normal logic. If one does so, one will immediately become confused. For example, the newly constructed skyscraper that fell completely apart was cast in absurdity by the fact that a cow was standing on top of it without any purpose. The contrast of the fallen skyscraper and the cow go completely against common sense.
I didn’t make the mess. The world itself is a mess. It is so hard to say what is right or wrong when something happens. The reason I believe is that people say things or do things based on whether they could benefit from it. It is a deadlock. No one can convince anyone. Once someone sticks to one’s opinion too much, the result is just like the cow standing on top of the fallen skyscraper, looking strong, but in fact ridiculous.
It is not sad to look at the world as a man-made illusion. In my installation, one may be faced with wars and disasters. But, honestly, they are merely models in a showroom. Likewise, when one is trying to balance between loss and win, one might as well regard the world as God’s holy game. Then those things that seem so bewildering are just empty rules.
