The Scene of QUN-XING

In Taipei’s Eastern District, where land is scarce and terribly expensive, an empty house is an impossible question mark; this empty space must have been left behind because of its legacy. Zhuang Hui-Lin chose to use plastic- the world’s first man-made industrial material that is now indispensable in our lives, to create the support of this city hole which had been abandoned and forgotten for many years. Since early times, clues to Zhuang Hui-Lin’s masterpieces are the materials and shapes she incorporated into her works. Erasers, metal wires, plastic ropes, plastic tubes, plastic cloth etc are some of her favorite materials; these materials are abundant in our daily lives. She wanted us to look at these materials from another perspective, to make them more attractive, digging out the glow of these heavily mass produced materials. She used her own physical measurements, through repeated weaving to lengthen these materials, extend them sideways, the point of intersection as if impromptu carols. The ripples of the weave as if the score of a soundless melody. The rays that fell on the plastics seemed to give space facial expressions, these materials, so common in our lives, are converging to become a true force that travels between surfaces and surfaces. At this moment, plastic is no longer just plastic.