Pyrce Luk
Who Wants What, 2023
Kinetic Installation
Collected delivery labels, collectedsale stickers, motor, wood, metals, acrylic polymer
Collected delivery labels, collectedsale stickers, motor, wood, metals, acrylic polymer
120 x 120 x 25 cm
Pyrce Luk is inspired and fascinated by the texture of desire - a force that is elementally powerful, yet paradoxically fragile and open to manipulation, for it is a synthetic...
Pyrce Luk is inspired and fascinated by the texture of desire - a force that is elementally powerful, yet paradoxically fragile and open to manipulation, for it is a synthetic mess. Her artistic journey is a continuous exploration into the labyrinth of desire and truth, and the complex relationships that intertwine them.
Pyrce predominantly expresses herself through conceptual and mixed media artworks.
Her creations often incorporate fragments of text to reflect or probe the complex terrain of the human psyche, and the ambiguity between simulation and reality. Through her works, she extends an invitation to everyone to delve into the swirling paradoxes and uncertainties beneath the manifestation of desire.
In her kinetic installation “WHO WANTS WHAT”, while the pronoun "I" was taken out from all sentences on the surface panel, the rotating panels underneath bear the names of all people she personally knew throughout her life, probing the complex interplay between personal wants, human interactions, mass media, and internal struggles.
Pyrce Luk (b. 1988) recently received her Master of Arts in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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"Who Wants What" is my self-interrogation of the genesis of personal desires — Are our dreams and valued genuinely our own, or simply synthetic products of the world around us?
Built with wood, this piece showcases a surface panel wherein the subject of each sentence is intentionally left blank (i.e. "_ want it", "_ need it", etc.), leaving the owner of my desires in question.
Emerging from beneath those blanks are the spinning names of every individual I know, symbolising all human interactions that have formed my wants.
These names randomly fill the blanks of the surface panel’s, in an unpredictable motion, forming fleeting and illusory sentences about desire, chaotic and intertwined.
(Some info about the structure/mechanism: the spin is triggered by one motor, and carried through to other plates with a “flapper” like those of Wheel of Fortune's to create random/unpredictable movements.)
Pyrce predominantly expresses herself through conceptual and mixed media artworks.
Her creations often incorporate fragments of text to reflect or probe the complex terrain of the human psyche, and the ambiguity between simulation and reality. Through her works, she extends an invitation to everyone to delve into the swirling paradoxes and uncertainties beneath the manifestation of desire.
In her kinetic installation “WHO WANTS WHAT”, while the pronoun "I" was taken out from all sentences on the surface panel, the rotating panels underneath bear the names of all people she personally knew throughout her life, probing the complex interplay between personal wants, human interactions, mass media, and internal struggles.
Pyrce Luk (b. 1988) recently received her Master of Arts in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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"Who Wants What" is my self-interrogation of the genesis of personal desires — Are our dreams and valued genuinely our own, or simply synthetic products of the world around us?
Built with wood, this piece showcases a surface panel wherein the subject of each sentence is intentionally left blank (i.e. "_ want it", "_ need it", etc.), leaving the owner of my desires in question.
Emerging from beneath those blanks are the spinning names of every individual I know, symbolising all human interactions that have formed my wants.
These names randomly fill the blanks of the surface panel’s, in an unpredictable motion, forming fleeting and illusory sentences about desire, chaotic and intertwined.
(Some info about the structure/mechanism: the spin is triggered by one motor, and carried through to other plates with a “flapper” like those of Wheel of Fortune's to create random/unpredictable movements.)