《Light the Barricades》（点亮路障）是一系列电气化的神龛，重新设想了墙体作为思考内心障碍的场所。结合了广告牌的结构和行走及坐禅冥想的仪式，这些装置邀请路人面对怨恨、评判和怀疑——这些品质似乎越来越主导着今天的美国生活。参观者被邀请沿着立面阅读一段插图寓言，然后在带有照明沙漏和尖锐问题的环境中进行五分钟的反思。这件艺术品由中国墨水、照片拼贴和文本组成。
《Light the Barricades》（点亮路障）横跨洛杉矶的四个地点，这些太阳能供电的结构首先出现在格兰德公园、安纳伯格社区海滩之家和洛杉矶自然历史博物馆，随后汇集到安纳伯格摄影空间，成为展览《墙：防御、分割与神圣》的一部分，该展览探讨了墙的历史用途和艺术处理。项目延伸至博物馆的画廊内，邀请参观者匿名分享他们的障碍，同时通过选择性回应的视频装置来考虑他人的经历。收集了超过3000份手写反思，其中许多被收录在书中。张和里夫斯为画廊创作的原声音乐出现在布鲁克林Mysteries of the Deep厂牌的环境音乐选集中。
该装置现在正在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特的薄荷博物馆展出，展期为2021年2月24日至7月25日。通过重新配置中国山水画的传统、灯箱和静默沉思，《Light the Barricades》（点亮路障）为这个容易分心的时代提供了一种现代仪式，借鉴了《易经》在不确定和变化时期暂停并面对内心障碍的建议。
2019年，加利福尼亚州洛杉矶；
2021年，北卡罗来纳州夏洛特。
8英尺高x27英尺宽x3英尺深的灯箱；
21英尺x18英尺的画廊装置。
灯箱材料：太阳能板、铝、聚碳酸酯、乙烯基、LED灯、沙漏、混凝土、墨水。
画廊材料：混凝土、投影、音频。由Katie Hollander和安纳伯格摄影空间委托。
展览由Jen Sudul Edwards策展。
项目管理由Stephanie Brown负责。
Light the Barricades
Light the Barricades is a series of electrified shrines that reimagines the wall as a site for contemplating inner obstructions. Combining the anatomy of billboards with the rituals of walking and sitting meditation, the installations invite passersby to reckon with resentment, judgment, and doubt—qualities that increasingly seem to dominate American life today. Visitors are invited to read an illustrated fable along the length of the facade before sitting for a five-minute reflection with an illuminated hourglass and a pointed question. The artwork consists of Chinese ink, photomontage, and text.
Spanning four sites across Los Angeles, the solar-powered structures first appeared at Grand Park, the Annenberg Community Beach House, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County before convening at the Annenberg Space for Photography as part of Walls: Defend, Divide, and the Divine, an exhibit that examines the historical use and artistic treatment of walls. Extending into the museum’s gallery, the project invited visitors to anonymously share their obstacles while considering the experiences of others through a video installation of select responses. Over 3,000 handwritten reflections were collected, many of which are featured in the book. Chang and Reeves’s original soundtrack for the gallery appeared in an anthology of ambient music by Brooklyn label Mysteries of the Deep.
This installation is now on view at The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, February 24 – July 25, 2021. By reconfiguring the traditions of Chinese landscape painting, lightboxes, and silent contemplation, Light the Barricades offers a modern ritual for these distracting times that draws upon the I Ching’s advice to pause and reckon with our inner obstructions during times of uncertainty and flux.
2019, Los Angeles, California; 2021, Charlotte, North Carolina. 8′ h x 27′ w x 3′ d lightboxes; 21′ x 18′ gallery installation. Lightboxes: Solar panels, aluminum, polycarbonate, vinyl, LED lights, hourglasses, concrete, ink. Gallery: concrete, projection, audio. Commissioned by Katie Hollander and the Annenberg Space for Photography. Exhibition curated by Jen Sudul Edwards. Project management by Stephanie Brown.
