Video: "Manuscripts of Nature" performed by Kui Fei
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If people in their time came up with the alphabet, then isn't there something similar in nature? And if there is, then what might the writing of trees, flowers, grass look like? Chinese artist Cui Fei has her own opinion on this subject, bringing to our attention the installation "Manuscripts of Nature".
“As a Chinese artist working in the United States, I have witnessed radical social change in China and experienced cultural differences in the United States - and I understand that my thinking is constantly changing. In response to the ever-changing external world, I seek the essential essence of our lives, something real and permanent, unaffected by social, political, cultural or geographical conditions. I see order and consistency in nature and I believe that it is she who can serve as a source of healing and harmony in our chaotic world,”says Kui Fei.
To create her manuscripts, Kui Fei uses objects found in nature - leaves, thorns, tendrils of plants - with which she creates symbolic alphabets and letters. These works symbolize "the silent messages of nature, waiting to be found and heard." The author believes that the Chinese perception of nature and the transculturalism characteristic of the Americans help her in a special way to see the relationship between culture and nature, between nature and man.
In addition to the relationship between man and nature, the author's manuscripts also touch upon socio-political problems. For example, one of the works is dedicated to the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 - a war that most Americans know nothing about. Each thorn in the manuscript symbolizes one day of war, and the entire work is a calendar system, where one line equals a month and one column equals a year of hostilities. The author created this work in order not only to remind mankind of these difficult times for her people, but also to warn against the repetition of such tragedies.
Kui Fei was born in the Japanese city of Jinan. In 1996 she moved to the United States to continue her studies (in 2001 she received a master's degree in drawing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania). The author currently lives and works in New York.
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