Junwei Zhang

“Nothing is ever fully present in signs. It is an illusion for me to believe that I can ever be fully present to you in what I say or write, because to use signs at all entails my meaning/being always somehow dispersed, divided and never quite one with itself. Not only my meaning, but I myself ... But any such theory of history of language as a single linear evolution misses the web-like complexity of signs: the back and forth, present and absent, forward and sideways movement of language in its actual processes.“

In Language Trilogy, artist Junwei Zhang looked closely at the art/media/culture’s condition which he refers to as hardware — the eradicated boundary between public and private space — and the methods which he considers as software — interpretive power and governmentality. He examined the condition and methods through three projects:

Udon Noodle
Thank You
365 Days