EATING not eating / 進食禁食
Eating Not Eating
2021
Mixed media
55 x 70 cm
Fasting is one of Islam’s five pillars. As someone who grew up in an Islamic household, it’s nothing more than an annual routine to me, but for others, the ritual could be difficult to understand, and may seem mysterious or even weird.
Eating Not Eating documents my daily life during Ramadan in the format of a table. Over the course of thirty days, I meticulously detailed the times of my fast, noting what I ate and what I did throughout the day, and recorded the pages of the Quran I read, and the Tawarih prayers I had done.
This table, organized and on display to the public, subverts my ordinary activity into an anomaly, in turn transforming what the spectators thought of as an anomaly into the most ordinary activity —— one of eating and not eating. The routine within the work aims to reveal the ways in which many anomalies are just normalities we have yet to try to understand.
In addition to the installation, there are two video works that recorded my performance of fasting and breaking the fast.
This project was commissioned by Bridge Hole by OFF-SITE, a big shout out to them for having me and showing support.
Image credits: axkuan for Bridge Hole, Ou Chelun, Sheau Ting Huang
Special thanks: Annette Liu, Yeh Kuang, Tiffany Tang, Ou Chelun, Minshi Wang
進食禁食
2021
複合媒材
55 x 70 公分
齋戒是伊斯蘭信仰中最基本的五項工作之一，對於從小生長在伊斯蘭環境的我，是個再稀鬆平常不過的日常生活，然而對一般非穆斯林的大眾或許顯得難懂、神秘、甚至反常，因此將齋戒中禁食的舉動作為我對進食主題的詮釋。我在齋戒月的生活用表格形式整理出來，每天開始和結束齋戒的時間、吃了什麼、做了什麼，都詳細記錄在表格上並公開展示出來。這份表格將我的日常放大成我的反常，觀看者原以為的反常也因此成為日常不過的活動——進食和禁食，並意識到，有些反常只是還沒理解的日常。
除了裝置作品之外，也製作了影像作品，呈現出「開齋」和「封齋」當下的情景。
此系列作品源自和場外合作之橋洞計畫，在此特別感謝場外的邀請和支持。
照片提供：橋洞計畫特約攝影師 axkuan、歐哲倫、黃筱庭
特別感謝：劉安蓁、葉連廣、唐語柔、歐哲綸、王敏旭
