Dimension: 210 mm x 290 mm x 20
Year of work produced: 2014
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Each of us owns a name, which is a code to "define” the one. We can't actually get to know the person through a name, but the "name” largely influences our understanding of a person indeed. "Unnamed 20” filtered 20 artists’ names. To Chinese people, they are foreigners but all have their own Chinese names. They cannot read or write “My Name", which is embarrassingly interesting. Based on these characters, I create abstract graphics, and add some concrete modelings as interferences, bringing obstacles for recognizing or reading. People would guess and doubt these graphics behind the associated text information (name), and may make wrong judgment, or even lose interest directly, as we first heard the name of a person.
我们每个人都有名字，我们通过名字这个“代号”来标注每一个人。我们不可能通过一个人的名字来了解这个人，但“名字”确实影响和干预了我们对某个人的了解。—— “未命名 20” 选择了20个艺术家的名字，他们都是外国人但都有自己的中文名字，他们自己读不出也无法书写“自己的名字”，这是个非常有趣的尴尬。我基于这些汉字做出抽象图形，并加入似有似无的具象造型做为干扰，为辨识和读取带来障碍。人们会猜测和怀疑这些图形背后所关联的文字（名字）信息，可能做出错误的判断，甚至直接失去兴趣，就像我们最初听到一个人的名字时一样。
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Each of us owns a name, which is a code to "define” the one. We can't actually get to know the person through a name, but the "name” largely influences our understanding of a person indeed. "Unnamed 20” filtered 20 artists’ names. To Chinese people, they are foreigners but all have their own Chinese names. They cannot read or write “My Name", which is embarrassingly interesting. Based on these characters, I create abstract graphics, and add some concrete modelings as interferences, bringing obstacles for recognizing or reading. People would guess and doubt these graphics behind the associated text information (name), and may make wrong judgment, or even lose interest directly, as we first heard the name of a person.
我们每个人都有名字，我们通过名字这个“代号”来标注每一个人。我们不可能通过一个人的名字来了解这个人，但“名字”确实影响和干预了我们对某个人的了解。—— “未命名 20” 选择了20个艺术家的名字，他们都是外国人但都有自己的中文名字，他们自己读不出也无法书写“自己的名字”，这是个非常有趣的尴尬。我基于这些汉字做出抽象图形，并加入似有似无的具象造型做为干扰，为辨识和读取带来障碍。人们会猜测和怀疑这些图形背后所关联的文字（名字）信息，可能做出错误的判断，甚至直接失去兴趣，就像我们最初听到一个人的名字时一样。
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