Mountains de-bonding #1 解山圖 (一)
2024 | gdm Taipei, Taiwan
“I walk from one end to the other, as if writing with unrecognized short broken strokes along the mountain images. The time I spent on the surface are my questions to my culture: the mountains are being distorted, broken apart. It is neither Shan Shui nor landscape, it is a movement between construction and deconstruction of the language I carried. Each stroke is against the projected mountain image, then the image of mountains is broken into flakes.”
- Lam Tung Pang
Mountain de-bonding (1) , 2024 | H240cm x 1200cm | Charcoal and ink on plywood | Photo: Anpis Wang
Mountains de-bonding is a 3-part series composed of 36 plywood panels, each part 12 meters in width, where Lam deconstructed 213 mountains (from prints found in the encyclopedia of pre-modern China, The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China in 1725) with charcoal, combined with rubbing, erasure and burning—his broken strokes formed movement, between deconstruction and construction, in a broken world.
