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FORMS OF BELIEF BELIEF IN FORMS
2025
2025
Drawing inspiration from the joss paper burning (燒衣紙) practices in Hong Kong during Ghost Month, locals engage in ceremonial incineration to communicate with the deceased. Joss paper, shaped to resemble consumable items like iPhones, Rolexes, or even Mercedes Benz, is sent to the underworld, allowing ancestors to enjoy these modern luxuries. Though this tradition originates from Buddhist and Taoist practices, it is the mass manufactured materials and goods that give form to these beliefs in our contemporary world.
Featured in the Weisner Gallery over one and a half months, this exhibition critically accounts the intersection of belief and modernity, positioning the viewers within an ambiguous ritual—a continuously printing, yet unreachable, machine housed in an altar. This is drawn specifically to the mass production of joss paper that uses industrial printers to create all forms of symbolic and materialistic worships, by reversing its mechanical nature into a spiritual one instead. This installation invites viewers to project their own beliefs onto the ritual, offering the space for meditation, self-contemplation or collective reflection.
Photo: Mingxuan Wei
Funded by Council for the Arts, MIT
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Featured in the Weisner Gallery over one and a half months, this exhibition critically accounts the intersection of belief and modernity, positioning the viewers within an ambiguous ritual—a continuously printing, yet unreachable, machine housed in an altar. This is drawn specifically to the mass production of joss paper that uses industrial printers to create all forms of symbolic and materialistic worships, by reversing its mechanical nature into a spiritual one instead. This installation invites viewers to project their own beliefs onto the ritual, offering the space for meditation, self-contemplation or collective reflection.
Photo: Mingxuan Wei
Funded by Council for the Arts, MIT
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