Liao Fei
China
Born in Jiangxi on 1981, and graduated from Shanghai Normal University in 2006, Liao Fei works and lives in Shanghai now.
He explores the connections and the tensile forces among different materials during creation. His works expose the metaphysical quality of common materials while concentrating on the relations among macro concepts such as reality and geometry, cognition and mysticism, and dualism and simplicity arguments.
One Way Sculpture1-5
Cable tie
Variable size
2017-2022
As a material, the cable tie itself determines its extension which is to extend outward from its connection point which forms the property of half lines. To fasten the tie, one must align it with the one-way buckle. If fasten in the wrong direction, it could be easily pulled out, which would lead to an unstable structure.
The shape of the space formed by the cable ties is unlimited: any kind of change brings a new shape. However, due to the properties and limitations of the material, its extension structure is limited.
In this work, I deduced from one cable tie, which gradually developed to 2, 3, 4, 5... cable ties. Through the method of exhaustion, all possibilities in permutation and combination of cable ties are presented. Although the cable tie is a man-made object, given the unknowability of the object itself, the coexistence of finite and infinite man-made objects may become a way to know the object.
Here, the shape of cable ties is like a certain type of “text”. And as the number of cable ties increases, the early subtle changes would make enormous differences in the final result. There is a view regarding the symbolic system of civilization as the combinations of fixed letters which, however, in the very beginning, are just several meaningless lines just like the cable ties.
One Way Sculpture1-5
Cable tie
Variable size
2017-2022
As a material, the cable tie itself determines its extension which is to extend outward from its connection point which forms the property of half lines. To fasten the tie, one must align it with the one-way buckle. If fasten in the wrong direction, it could be easily pulled out, which would lead to an unstable structure.
The shape of the space formed by the cable ties is unlimited: any kind of change brings a new shape. However, due to the properties and limitations of the material, its extension structure is limited.
In this work, I deduced from one cable tie, which gradually developed to 2, 3, 4, 5... cable ties. Through the method of exhaustion, all possibilities in permutation and combination of cable ties are presented. Although the cable tie is a man-made object, given the unknowability of the object itself, the coexistence of finite and infinite man-made objects may become a way to know the object.
Here, the shape of cable ties is like a certain type of “text”. And as the number of cable ties increases, the early subtle changes would make enormous differences in the final result. There is a view regarding the symbolic system of civilization as the combinations of fixed letters which, however, in the very beginning, are just several meaningless lines just like the cable ties.
