#4: For the Photos I Didn’t Take, For the Stories I Didn’t Read

This work is For the Photos I Didn't Take, for the Stories I Didn't Read. There are a total of two image works in this exhibition and this is one of them. There are many books on site. The inspiration for this work is related to a well-known fairy tale- The Little Match Girl. I live in Denmark and I re-read the original version of Andersen's story there, which is very different from the version I read when I was young. So I kept thinking about what kind of impact it had on me when my mother read this story to me every night in my childhood. I always asked her to read it again and again. I want to invite everyone to read this story again with me in a new way. Every word is translated into a web image, which led to misreading. This misreading is cruel. For example, the word "China" in the original text refers to porcelain, but the corresponding image is actually the place. This is one layer of misreading. When the girl's dead grandmother appears in the sky in a halo, she says her grandmother is beautiful, and I used a Barbie doll image to represent it. So your heart will be constantly struck, and you will feel pain. I am really grateful that two of my friends have been helping with the setting here. We had stacked the books, and I hope the effect of them is that the story can roll out from these ancient books. I don't mind if the audience can see the full outline of the TV. I hope they can get a feeling that the knowledge is injecting into our brains. Books of exactly the same size are stacked together. It is a very small detail that may not be noticed by everyone. For me, it's a city wall instead of a book pile. It is hard, unshakable, the power of knowledge. It is our history written on paper that has influenced us since we were young.