09.11.23 | Mapping, navigating, connecting: MA Sculpture Artist's Talk with Yu-Chen Wang
"In the search of the invisible" was a sentence written in the cover of the catalogue of an exhibition shown by Yu-Chen during the talk. In the search of the invisible, as a way of looking at something, but not really knowing what you're looking at, or what you're looking for. She mentioned that, in her experience, someone told her that "artists notice things that sometimes other people don't really notice".
It is so beautiful, for me, to think that anyone can notice things that sometimes other people don't. I guess the requirement for this is to be present and realize that there are way more things in the world than what we usually see in a daily basis (things that are even "hidden" in the everyday). To be open to see in a different way, or to make a move to actually interact in a different way with the world, is something impactful.
When changing perspectives, you can see things in totally different ways. One possibility, I believe, is trying to access one's intimacy. It is an invisible part of the world, in a sense; it turns visible to those who look for it.
Yu-Chen said that "it's okay not to know; if you don't know, you can say 'I don't know'". To not know something creates space to see new things, and to see new things is an experience that fascinates me every time it happens. Because it's in this space that the commonly unnoticed things can emerge, and impact life somehow. Therefore, if I'm present enough, this new experience can happen everyday - inside and outside of me.