Artworks included in this exhibition are mainly based on competitive sports equipment, such as hurdle fences, table tennis rackets, and baseball bats. These objects are transformed by the artist, and as these previously standardized athletic items take on different looks, shifts in standards and variations on forms seem to emerge as conventional logic is altered. The original duo meanings embodied by sports competitions/games and the social mechanism operated behind these competitive scenes are emphasized individually by these sporting goods, as extended meaning and imaginative potential are brought about by the interrelated approach opted for this exhibition.
Warm up and Soar beyond is comprised of 7 spatial installation works, and it transforms MOCA Studio into various competitive arenas, as competitions and challenges one would face in sports and also in real life are simulated. If “stillness” is analogous to the state of warming up, “mobility” is than a concrete actualization of self-transcendence. In the exhibition, stilled objects, competition system, surrounding ambiance are designed and constructed by the artist to allow the audience to wander amidst these different objects/symbols and to take on the role as the truly mobile subject. Issues of contrast between stillness and mobility; balanced relationship between people and objects; competitive states and networks between people; and modern day people’s internal pressure and hope for self-transcendence are what this exhibition of objects and sports theater is referencing to and portraying.