NARRATOR:

Braiding is an installation work created by Lin Tianmiao in 1998. The medium includes digital print on fabric, cotton thread, and a colour, silent, single-channel digital video. The work measures 400 centimetres high, 260 centimetres wide, and 1500 centimetres deep.

A large piece of cream-coloured fabric is suspended in the air from the ceiling, which is about the height of two doors stacked up, and the width of three doors placed side by side. On the fabric is a slightly blurred black-and-white portrait photo of the artist, in which the artist has a shaved head, making it hard to identify the gender of the person portraited. This artist looks straight into the camera and has a neutral facial expression, showing neither a smile nor a frown.

Countless tiny knots have been tied on the surface of the fabric. When viewed from the back, thousands of thin, cream-coloured threads are pulled through the fabric, which cascade down to the ground and gather to create one thick, large braid. The braid twists and tangles and extends for many metres, getting thinner and thinner as it extends further away from the portrait until it becomes a thin braid. The end of the thin braid is connected to a small device that displays a video, which depicts a pair of hands braiding three threads by crossing the threads repeatedly. The thin braid appears to be connected to the braid in the video.

語音導賞資料庫 Audio Guide Archive

緊貼最新消息！ Stay in the know!

語音導賞資料庫

緊貼最新消息！