Persimmons, Persimmons2020
100cm × 100cm
In English, persimmon is also called ‘Kaki’by its Japanese transliteration, or ‘Oriental Persimmon’ (an interesting factis, tomato is called ‘Western red persimmon’ in Chinese). Although its plantingarea has long been extended, the name of this fruit makes it have a constantpolitical metaphor: in everyday life and culture, ‘The Oriental’ and ‘TheOccidental’ are brought into opposite unconsciously but dramatically, thisopposition is even sometimes absurd. This politicization towards everyday lifeand culture is just like Muxi’s Six Persimmons: criticized in Chineseaesthetical theory, appreciated and being influential in Japan, and then beinginfluential to the occidental countries, and finally being important in Chineseart history.
Persimmons, Persimmons is a riddle of culture; its answer refers to nothing but the structureof this riddle itself——Each six persimmons is aphotographic metaphor of Muxi’s painting, the spacial and perspectivecomposition suggests the inevitable ‘The Occidental’ in contemporary art, thesameness of the composition of two sets of persimmons (but differentiated bydetails) makes this opposition unreadable. In this anti-language interpreting, Persimmons,Persimmons finished its meaning constructing.