The Ritual of Travel

作品賞析

The artist Hung Yun-Ting hopes to use her works to show modern high-tech, as well as how people crave transportation, mobility, and travel. In her work, The Ritual of Travel, she has mounted six laser-engraved acrylic panels in light-colored wooden frames to make six separate pieces, with images corresponding to airport scenes arranged in the sequence from departure to arrival. Each frame is then mounted on the wall from one side. The embedded images are like photographs from a trip. As the viewer passes by, it is as if he or she is going through customs, the waiting area, the boarding bridge, and so on, on their way to a distant country. Hung Yun-Ting stacks a chronological sequence through space, so that the viewer passes through the windowed sequence of one after another ritualistic scene; passing through is like the realization of displacement in travel. The images, cast as people’s silhouettes on the wall, represent not only other people but also the viewers themselves.