In Cosmicomics, a collection of short stories by Calvino, this meaningless aggregation of characters can be a name, a nonmaterial being, a narrator, or a creator of a world. But it doesn’t matter. What’s fascinating is the stories from a created god’s mouth. In this exhibition, this is also the role which Yuqi Lin wants to play. She is not satisfied with the world she lives in, so she intended to construct an interesting world: by creating a narrator to tell stories of the other world and let the audiences to explore and image it.
In her series of works, named as The Rules of George, she tried to achieve what Calvino did in the Cosmicomics, by creating her own rules through some weirdos’ mouth: but from a different angle. Consisted with several different videos, which focused on achieving the same goal: to expose the rules in a world that combines the reality and the imaginary. Lin refused to give too much information to the audiences, rather, she would like to see how these videos may be interpreted by different viewers. Just like what Foucault said: They are unique in that they are not just the authors of their own works. They have produced something else: the possibilities and the rules for the formation of other texts. While in the work, I Am Always the Weak in Front of You, shows the reaction when “I” saw those “I” am afraid of in a sleepless night: Escape, turns out to be a useless choice; Choose to face it and rush into the dark night, but still lost in it.
