Wang Luyan is attending the 4th Today literature exhibition. This exhibition is co-curated by curators Benedict Huang and Jonathan Harris, which invited 37 artists from different countries and regions to participate. The theme of the exhibition is "Sewing up". It is based on the world's latest complicated changes of society, politics, economy and culture. Its English phrase "A Stitch in Time" derives from the proverb "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine". These new trends of world view and the condition of uncertainty, similar to the imbalance of economic development, trade barriers and reverse the rise of globalization, forced to displaced immigrants, narrow nationalism and religious extremism and terrorism are emerging, the competition of high-tech technology and network penetration and attacks across geographical boundaries, environmental issues, and Britain's confusion and so on, directly or indirectly affect and pose a threat to human survival and development process.
According to Wang Luyan, the reason why the word "suture" exists in rhetoric is there are many things that exist due to suture and they are corresponding to the concept of "suture" in the relationship between things, human and nature, modern technology and spiritual level.
Wang Luyan analyzed this phenomenon with the method of dichotomous correspondence and regarded suture as a kind of intervention and correction of his own worldview and value judgment against the existence of difference. This action changes the object in a powerful way and is also changed by the object in a compromising way. It is the deconstruction of the object, and at the same time it is constructing the object, maintaining a balance and at the same time breaking a balance. Sometimes it is rational and sometimes it is irrational. It is a kind of healing, and the scar after the healing may be a new wound. It is a link between cultures and beliefs, not a unity. So accordingly, sometimes we need to be on the side of the suture, and sometimes we need to be on the side of the suture. We have to find what needs to be stitched together, but we also have to question the reason for the stitch. And the word "suture" will always have a real meaning, because the world exists in a relationship in the form of a patchwork of links. And the relationship between things may be the cracks that can be stitched together.
Because of the uncertainty and timidity of each stitch, most of what has been stitched is the appearance, while the truth is the opposite. In this regard, Wang Luyan tries to reveal the "representation" and "truth" of opposite correlation in his work Projection -- A Different person with the same direction, who raises his left arm and his right arm, that is, the person who raises his left arm is also the person who raises his right arm, and pointing to the left means pointing to the right. The contradictory "appearance" and "truth" transform each other, and their properties are not recognized and judged. They are linked to each other in the way of projection, but the projection is opposite to the subject in imaging. The absurdity of projection reflects the nature of the subject -- that is, the relationship between the subject and the projection hides an internal rupture that needs to be stitched up, and this rupture may arise from some kind of logical suture.
