The process of creating arts could be regarded as a kind of personal unique working state and experience of the creator. Without face to face meeting with the artist, the audience could hardly notice all kinds of thoughts and turning points during the creating process. The “Lexicon” originates from inviting exchange between “SLY Art Space” and “Wasteland Art Space”, both of which tried to touch the process in the artistic creation that how art is transformed and shaped.

 

In the exhibition, “SLY Art Space” invited six artists to create independently from their own view points, while the eight artists from “Wasteland Art Space” resort to the “Re:Re:” pattern that artists meet regularly and create mutual experience in Fu-Zhou area, and all kinds of state to reply each other.

 

The participants in the “Wasteland Art Space” meeting have different floating connective relationship with the “Wasteland Art Space”. Zeng Mei-Fu, and Wu Chen- Yi are operators of “Wasteland Art Space”； Wu Chen- Yi lived in Fu-Zhou area when she was little, which is why they select their location there；“Working Hard” (Kuo, Po-Yu ÷ She, Wen-Ying) and KAO DENG-HUEI are members of “Shan Zhen Hai Wei Studio”. Since their studio is also located in Fu-Zhou, from the artistic exchange, they gradually connect themselves with “Wasteland Art Space”. Jhou-Yu and Li.kuei-Pi have once joined exchange activities from “Wasteland Art Space” . Whether those seemingly common relation has any secret inevitability to connect the artists together?  

 

 

“Wasteland Art Space” is a composite alternative space that the café shop at the first floor can arouse the atmosphere of chatting and contemplating. In the preparation of this exhibition, this space is set as a regular meeting place, where they visit once every two weeks (at the end of the exhibition term, they visit every week) in stagnation to chat, share, or visit Fu-Zhou area, which they discuss and communicate.

 

 

This kind of meeting is different from the subjective way of an artist preparing exhibition on his or her own, which is also very different from the way that curator has to arrange all duties in an exhibition. The commitment of the meeting results in the opportunity for them to meet up, opening a path to sense thoughts, perseverance, and imagination from the conversations between them. The meetings become a participating fact that they have mutually gone through, from which their life experience overlaps one another.  

 

 

The Re:Re: meeting in Wasteland Art Space have no presumed theme；instead, they try to catch the artistic inspiration from the field visits, sharing experience, and the imagination among conversation with replies. Just like between the Re: Re: in email, there include personal conversation thinking and quick adaptation to changing circumstances that sometimes serious, but sometimes humorously sharing the imaginary concept linked with diversity or difference.  

 

 

In the experience of the meetings, how to face the non-stop springing out of imaginations and different voices from the creators? Which imaginations should come true? Which should stay in imagination? After experiencing a series process of proposal, argument, second proposal……, the final practice of the exhibition return to the initial “invitation” itself—through the invitation to the other participants they link up mutual experience and memories during the meetings, which is presented in a way that under the creators’ own thinking path, the participants discuss their presentation together. The invitation stands if one or more people are willing to join, from which give birth to diverse group practice and developing shapes.

   

 

From the meeting of “Wasteland Art Space” , and the invitation developed from the Fu-Zhou area field trips reflect unique thinking path among different creators, meanwhile, overlapping each other in different aspect of : private/ public, memories/ reality, now/ meta……etc. Like they are constructing their own path to a crossroad garden in different imagination, while encounter one another as if their minds are in sync. Perhaps this reflects that the meetings in the practice of an exhibition, presents experience of the creation, overruling, restatement, fusion……of concept, and try to realize the possibility of communication.