Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 2, 2012

. A THROW OF DICE.

Artwork For Pharmacide Travelling Exhibition 2012 - Meta House - Cambodia

...  Một con xí ngầu với 6 mặt mang khả năng như nhau. Mỗi lần gieo chỉ có một khả năng được chọn. Với tác phẩm này tôi đề nghị 18 mặt của 3 con xí ngầu, có 18 khả năng, và chỉ 3 khả năng được chọn.


What my imagination refers to, in making this work, is exactly the dice. I use the possibility of luck in throwing the dice to imply the luck of the draw when taking the pills. It seems like you got ill, you went to the pharmacy, got the pills and you took the pills but you really don’t know whether they were real or fraud. And no one does.

The work is a set of 03 small sculpture cubes whose shapes are dice-alike. They are made of by the mixing of concrete and grinding stones – the popular mixing of materials used in making the stone benches in the public places – such as hospital, park, school; or gravestone.
Each faces of the trio cubes has labeled respectively. So every time you throw a die, you’ll have the same chance to get, for instance, either this or that face with the label on it. Hence, whenever throwing the dice, you’ll get 3 out of 18 labeled faces.
Here is the labels on each face of the three dice respectively:
Die No. 1:                               DieNo2:                            DieNo3:

1.     Real                            1. Child                             All faces are “Fraud”
2.     Fraud                          2 .Man
3.     Real                            3. Woman
4.     Fraud                          4. Pregnancy
5.     Real                            5. Elder
6.     Fraud                          6. Youth
The battle against medicine fraud, with which we are involved – more or less, is apparently not a fair game. These dice are the metaphor for the cheating side of this game. And sometimes it stakes a life of a human being on the betting./.