Yuan Hui-Li presents More is Less: Bittersweetness, a video work created in a special format for the Electronic Wall of Building C at Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center. In this piece, the artist repeatedly writes the characters 「悲欣」 (“sorrow and joy”) with a brush on cicada-wing paper, then gradually covers them with countless dots and strokes until the words become nearly unrecognizable. Through the layered accumulation of ink over time, viewers witness the shifting shades of brushwork, which metaphorically mirror the passage of life—its marks and stains, as well as the “blank spaces” of the time remaining. The subtitle references the final words of Master Hongyi, 悲欣交集 (“sorrow and joy intermingled”), using the term “Bittersweetness” as a poetic allusion to the nature of life itself.
Peng Wei’s work Hi-Ne-Ni Heart Sutra features a female body cast in plastic, wrapped layer by layer with flax paper and dried. On this sculpted form, the artist inscribes the Heart Sutra. By treating the female body not only as an event in itself but also as the site of narrative, the paper-bodied figure becomes both medium and message.
