In a recent solo exhibition "Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real" at the Singapore Art Museum, April 20 to June 10, 2013, Lee Wen enacted a work called "Room For Nothing To Do”, the materials used were large dry leaves collected as one museum chair, needle and thread, and a pile of blank A4 size left on a museum pedestals.
In the current exhibition of “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back - Us and Institution, Us as Institution”, being hold at Times Museum, Lee Wen proposed to make the second installment of “Room For Nothing To Do”. I was luckily to be a participant to assist him to create the work to be installed together. In the process the artist provided an insight into the philosophical ideas behind his art practice. It is seen as a part of the oral tradition of cultural exchange although in fact we are in an age of heightens individualism.
The picture of me with the art work was taken by Lee Wen at Guangdong Times Museum.
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