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The Ways of Gazing the Pillar of Salt
1998
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WU Yu-Tang
The Ways of Gazing the Pillar of Salt
1998
mixed media
Dimensions Variable
The Ways of Gazing the Pillar of Salt
1998
mixed media
Dimensions Variable
The Ways of Gazing the Pillar of Salt
1998
mixed media
Dimensions Variable
The Ways of Gazing the Pillar of Salt
1998
mixed media
Dimensions Variable
The Ways of Gazing the Pillar of Salt
1998
mixed media
Dimensions Variable
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This work was chosen to exhibit in Reflection and Reconsideration: 2.28 Commemorative Exhibition, 1998. In the Book of Genesis, prophet Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back at Sodom. Utilizing this as a metonymy, I question who is playing the role of God? Who has the right to turn someone looking back at history into a salt pillar? The installation consists of metal sheet walls, in the aesthetic of illegal worksites, surrounding a basalt column. The column was drenched with concentrated salt water to form salt crystals. On top of the column, a plaster bust faces the Grand Hotel Taipei outside the window of the 308 exhibition room of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. On the floor of this worksite piles old clothes, which thickness decreases in the direction of the window, symbolizing spirits of the dead from far to near. In the midst of the clothing piles, fragments of the song Tu Chuan Flower (meaning rhododendron) plays in loop. These elements are all surrounded by the metal sheet, thus the audience can not view it in its entirety, but only peer to the slits of the metal sheets to see fragments. Outside the metal sheet wall, school desks and chairs are scattered about, as if stating that the act of learning about history is merely a result of observing fragments.

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