The Mending Project features 1500 Chinese iron scissors hanging from the ceiling, creating a dark cloud. Below, a woman mends fabric pieces cut by viewers from cloth near the gallery entrance. The sewn fabric grows beneath the scissors, symbolizing looming aggression softened by the quiet act of mending.
The Mending Project
May 22, 2024
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The Mending Project features 1,500 pairs of Chinese iron scissors suspended from the ceiling, pointing downwards, forming a menacing dark cloud. Beneath these countless sharp blades, a woman sits, continuously performing the simple task of mending. Viewers are invited to cut small pieces of white cloth hung near the entrance of the gallery and hand them to the performer. The sewn fabric, filled with ridges and valleys of black stitches, lies bare on the floor beneath the cloud of scissors, growing in size throughout the performance. The Mending Project alludes to looming aggression and uncertainty, which are balanced and softened by the silent, simple action of mending.
縫補計畫由1500把懸掛在天花板上的中國鐵剪刀組成，這些剪刀刀尖向下，形成一個陰森的黑雲。在這些無數鋒利的刀刃下，一位女子靜坐，持續進行簡單的縫補工作。觀眾被邀請剪下懸掛在畫廊入口附近的小塊白布，並將它們交給表演者。縫補的織物上佈滿了黑線形成的溝壑，裸露地躺在剪刀雲下的地面上，並隨著表演的進行不斷擴大。縫補計畫暗示了迫在眉睫的侵略和不確定性，而這些被沉默、簡單的縫補行為所平衡和緩和。
Beili Liu
Talented Chinese Beili Liu is a widely commissioned and critically acclaimed multidisciplinary artist who works with many materials but especially with textile fibres to create material-and-process-driven, site-responsive installations and sculptures. These works address themes of diaspora, cultural identity, materiality, and labour. Using commonplace materials and elements such as thread, wool, needles, scissors, feathers, salt, wax, cement, and Chinese spirit money, Liu manipulates their intrinsic qualities to extrapolate complex cultural narratives.
Her approach, always very poetic, generally involves associating gesture and time with material. To create her microcosms, the artist invests the space by installing small elements, often organic shapes that float in the air and become part of fragility and vulnerability.
Beili Liu 是一位旅美藝術家，作品材料大多主要以紡織纖維創作並與散居各地、文化認同、物質與作品相關主題的裝置藝術。
她常透過在藝術空間中使用生活平常相關的物品與材料，如以線、羊毛、針、剪刀、翅膀、鹽、蠟、水泥和中國酒錢等常見材料和元素，來操縱物品固有的能力，推進複雜的文化敘事，特別是以非常詩意，將姿態和時間與材料連結起來，創造自己的小世界，而這些元素往往是漂浮在空中，非常有趣且帶有故事性。
Beili Liu她在訪問中談到，「她出生在中國東北的一個農村村莊。 在我人生的三個階段，從村落到城市，到美國的移民，深深地影響了我的創作。 簡單與自由，我生活在村莊裡的一切事物的放任與靈活，是我愛材料與手工製作的基礎。 與所有同時生活在多個社會和文化背景的移民分享游牧經驗。 這些回憶和經驗定義了對我的工作進行調查和深思熟慮的方法。 過去二十年，我發展出一種結合雕塑、裝置特定空間、公共藝術和表演的混合作品形式。
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The Mending Project
The Mending Project features 1500 Chinese iron scissors hanging from the ceiling, creating a dark cloud. Below, a woman mends fabric pieces cut by viewers from cloth near the gallery entrance. The sewn fabric grows beneath the scissors, symbolizing looming aggression softened by the quiet act of mending.
