Paradise, who?

This work was inspired by a line in Wang Jun-Jieh’s David’s Paradise: “Paradise is where people go after death. Nobody knows what it’s like.” The artist expresses emotions through images in contemporary art, making technology serve the needs of art concepts, striking close to the psychological states of the audience. For Yeh Ming-Hwa, this is a process from cold to hot. As a recipient of such emotions, Yeh transforms her body into a container and medium and attempts to make her physical body transparent so as to enter “paradise” in the present world. In the work, Yeh’s right hand becomes a showerhead machine hand; a bunch of roses take the place of the head, turning and splitting, walking in a setting that seems familiar but ignites a sense of doubt. In the past, it was through the screen; now, it is presented on-site, from hot to cold. The melancholy and the existence and disappearance of life are manifested through methods that transcend different mediums, allowing the mind to wander.