Peace, Imperfect Peace
Hard cover,
Laser Print,
960 pages (Single-sided printing),
A4 size, 21.7cm thick,
Manual perfect binding,
Chinese Text

CHENG Yuk Man, Toast 鄭鈺汶
2020 BA Creative Media graduate

  toastcheng1020@gmail.com
  hypomanictoast
  https://cinamopyh.weebly.com/

Abstract

Through visiting the places where body has been discovered since June 15, 2019, the artist translates the death cases in Hong Kong from June 2019 to April 2020 into a thick grey book that looks like a nameless gravestone, to remind the deaths of an individual which should not be forgotten, but eventually and inevitably will be forgotten.
藝術家以文字及攝影紀錄部份自2019年6月15日至2019年4月的遺體發現案及其場所，並製成21.7厘米厚的硬皮書籍。書籍外觀彷似一座無名墓碑，試圖銘記那些不應被遺忘，卻終究無法與遺忘對抗的個體的消亡。

Artist Statement

We farewell, and attempt to never forget. Through images, text, objects, we mourn to try reaching those who passed away while in any form of medium, the qualitative lost of one’s is irreversible. One, as an individual, is fragmentized into various form of information. The fragmentation is paradoxical to the original intention of mourning – “remembering”, in another words, “choosing to remember something” is equal to “giving up the others.” I consider this is the largest brutality of death. How could we even “remember” one as an individual through mourning?

Death is an irresistable force of oblivion eventually.

我們告別，然後試圖永誌不忘。人以文字、影像、物件等媒介悼念逝者，念某個無可替代的「質」那無法逆轉的消亡。作為個體的逝者自此被分割、流失，終究成了資訊的碎片。這與紀念的本意－－「記憶」似是互相矛盾：選擇記著某些同時意味著捨棄餘下的某些。或許死亡就是此般殘酷。何以悼念，何以記憶？

死亡本為不可抗力，名為遺忘的不可抗力。