Art must be beautiful | Artist must be beautiful___Marina Abramovic
The images used in Invisible Sadness Project 01-Tear Me Apart are selected from the daily photos of Artist's Portrait one picture per year . Through physical growth process, with gender awareness and appearance changes at different stages. The physicality of the human body and the cultural are the pillars on which Laza Wu Tzu-ning’s work is based. “Invisible Sadness Project 01 –Tear me apart” – the title of her work – shows 33 photographs of 33 years of the artist’s life projected onto a wall covered with thick layers of colored paper. The viewer is invited to skim through her life with a computer and even tear the virtual photograph in two pieces. As the pictures get scrolled and torn by the audience, different moments in time of the same person clash in bizarre combinations, allowing a reflection on the manifold, muting identities of people as the body ages in time and relationships with society change. Both tangible and intangible framework of the constraints, as well as that imposed by the principal and the Ethics ideas caused the violence dimension.