​《感染系列：共棲》 Infection Series: Commensalism

​冷陰極燈管、植物、電子裝置、油漆顏色(中國風情)
Cold-cathode fluorescent lamp, Plant, Electronic device, Pinting color(Chinese Sensation)
尺寸依空間而定 Dimensions Variable
2019  MOCA Taipei Plaza

Exhibitions​ info: 瘟疫的慢性處方 Interminable Prescriptions for the Plague | MOCA Taipei

The concept of 《Infection Series》 comes from the fact that friends and family are infected by the disease one after another. The abnormal cells and foreign bacteria multiply and flow in human body. As time goes by, the body gradually fills up with the cells and bacteria. With the uncontrollable force formed, there’s nothing people can do but let them occupy the body. These microbes grow rapidly and conquer territory. It splits in two, to four, then to sixteen. It replicates by geometric progression.For microbes, this may be a primitive way to survive. But for the parasitized creature, it is gradually dying. The way human beings face disease resembles the relationship between the earth and mankind, the relationship between the environment and technology. It is just like two cultures with different strength invade each other and pillage to continue developing.

The work <Commensalism> shows a beautiful and cruel relationship between the lamp and plant by presenting the changes take place in the plant.

《感染系列》概念來自疾病在家人、朋友身上相繼發生，那些不正常的細胞和外來 的病菌在體內大量的增生和流竄，隨著時間增加，也漸漸的佈滿，面對這般無法控制的勢 力形成，也只能任由牠們佔領。這些微生物迅速的擴張，大量的攻城略地，從一變成二， 再分裂成四、十六⋯⋯，以等比級數的方式複製繁衍； 對於生物來說，這或許是延續生 存的一種原始方式，但對於被寄生感染的生命體來說，卻也是逐漸走向死亡。人類面對疾 病如地球之於人類、環境之於科技，或是如兩異大小、強勢弱勢文化，彼此互相侵略以強 迫獲取的方式，只是為了延續發展。

作品《共棲》藉由人造燈管與植物時間的生長變化，在兩異材質的關係之間呈現美麗又殘忍的曖昧 關係。