“無物” (wú wù)—objectlessness—a core concept in Daoist philosophy, is the starting point for the series. objectless is an interactive installation, which explores how ritual endures when material forms dissolve.
There is a kind of speaking that happens in solitude, where no reply is expected. Viewers are invited to type into the keyboard that offers no words. Like prayer, it unfolds in silence, unwitnessed, inward, and known only to the one who offers it.
As Zhuangzi reflects: “Dao cannot be expressed in words; what can be expressed in words is not dao. Is it not the case that which gives form to form is itself formless?”
objectless invites viewers into this ambiguity. Here, cultural memory is not static inheritance, but as living negotiation between past and present, gesture and disappearance, silence and response.
What remains is not the object, but the trace of intention. Viewers may press a key to hold onto a passing moment on screen, and take it with them as a print.
