In Klein Cube, I attempt to express the repression and release that people face towards psychological desires, through documenting the human interactions and performative installation. Freud asserted in his psychoanalysis that when certain desires pass over the moral boundary, where the ‘ego’ rejects to enter the subconscious, thus repressed in the inner world, this process is know as ‘Repression’.
However, these desires do not vanish, they seek for other ways for an expression. Such expression would transfer to a restrictedly moral state but with a similar intention-the so-called process of ‘Sublimation’. Under this concept, the blue cube sculpture is a restraint, where the inside camouflages loads of indescribable desires. The desires are suppressed by the cube, and finally released on the easel to form another work of art that sublimates the original desire through the artistic expression. When introducing this psychoanalytical concept to audiences, it helps them to release their own repression in a more aesthetic and playful way, which also lead them to reconcile with life in a positive way.
However, these desires do not vanish, they seek for other ways for an expression. Such expression would transfer to a restrictedly moral state but with a similar intention-the so-called process of ‘Sublimation’. Under this concept, the blue cube sculpture is a restraint, where the inside camouflages loads of indescribable desires. The desires are suppressed by the cube, and finally released on the easel to form another work of art that sublimates the original desire through the artistic expression. When introducing this psychoanalytical concept to audiences, it helps them to release their own repression in a more aesthetic and playful way, which also lead them to reconcile with life in a positive way.
Exhibition Display
Exhibition Display
In the exhibition planning of this project, I placed the installation in the exhibition hall and posted 100 processual images on the walls around the installation. The processual images show how the installation has been destroyed from a complete cube to its final form. I plan to invite visitors to the gallery to continue to 'destroy' the installation indefinitely, and then select a piece from the broken installation fragments and paste it on the canva on the left, so that the 'painting' can continue to be created.
In this installation, the cube is a kind of regular frame, and all the polystyrene balls inside it represent the myriad of human desires. When the viewer destroys the cube by hand and then pastes the dropped polystyrene balls onto the drawing board on the left, it means that some of the desire is released, but in a way that is stimulated into an artistic expression, such as painting.
I hope to guide the audience to continue to create the work, integrate diversified desire sets, create new unpredictable thinking cycles, and also provide experimental opportunities for my subsequent research on human psychoanalysis.
In this installation, the cube is a kind of regular frame, and all the polystyrene balls inside it represent the myriad of human desires. When the viewer destroys the cube by hand and then pastes the dropped polystyrene balls onto the drawing board on the left, it means that some of the desire is released, but in a way that is stimulated into an artistic expression, such as painting.
I hope to guide the audience to continue to create the work, integrate diversified desire sets, create new unpredictable thinking cycles, and also provide experimental opportunities for my subsequent research on human psychoanalysis.
