Video: Curl Calligraphy: Installation by Wenda Gu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For two decades artist Wenda Gu, who lives in New York, is working on a large-scale project called "United Nations" … The final stage was the creation installations "Bable of the Millennium", installed at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. It is a nearly 23-meter display with letters and symbols of various cultures.
The ability to communicate is what allows you to call a person a rational being. Many artists comprehend the meaning of language and speech for humans. Suffice it to recall the snow-white room decorated with Arabic script, which was created by the designer Parastou Forouhar, who pondered the problem of the language barrier that people face in emigration. The installation by Wenda Gu is another attempt to show that communication can be a salvation for native speakers of the same language and an insurmountable obstacle for foreigners.
True, Wenda Gu is sure: people can be united by something more, something that has no linguistic differences. We are all human, two legs, two arms. This is what gives us the opportunity to reach mutual understanding. In order to demonstrate his idea, he used his hair as "ink" for writing letters. For this purpose, he visited 325 hairdressers and beauty salons in 18 countries of the world, thus visiting all continents. He laid out words from the curls in Chinese, English, Arabic, and also in Hindi. In total, there are one hundred stained-glass panels through which light enters the exhibition hall.
Of course, viewers immediately look for words that they understand, start reading the inscriptions, but find that all the phrases are not finished. These are just images of foreign cultures that should be felt rather than understood. At least Venda Gu himself is convinced that the intuitive way of knowing in this case is very productive.
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