Loved this series by Hung-Chin Peng, called "Face to Face", in the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art Gallery in the 798. Its not just because I love dogs, these are tender works.
The first is a series of dog sculptures made of fiberglass and incorporate sound. The dogs' forms are exaggerated shapes and their heads/skulls are open so that you can see from the inside, viewing out through their gaze.
Near the sculptures, in a small adjacent room, is a small monitor playing a loop of film that runs both forward and backward. It shows a dog licking away and then (as it runs backward) seeming to write excerpts from the Analects of Confucius. I wonder what they used to paint the characters? Something yummy, I expect. To a dog, anyway. This clip shows the dog "writing" the following: "When a bird is about to die, his cry is full of sorrow. When a man is about to die, his words can only be good and truthful." Click here for their website.
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