‘Matsumara smiled, displaying his set of beautifully even front teeth. Moments before, I’d noticed a single gold tooth in his mouth. It gleamed whenever he smiled. Then, ever so proudly, he used his finger to remove it. He held it out for me to see.’
-- Edogawa Ranpo, The Two-sen Copper Coin
In modern life, media disorder encroaches our ability to think. When facing seemingly clueless routines, many of us feel almost instinctively resentful and evasive. If we reduce the cluttered information to a simple linguistic pattern, such as words, images or sounds, could we reinvigorate our instincts of thought, empathy and imagination, then rearrange questions and answers with a proactive mind that resembles ratiocination?
I Tossed a Two-sen Coin Into The Air is extended from the short story written by Edogawa Ranpo, the father of Honkaku Mystery, in his early years; the exhibition introduces three channels to receive information. Return to concentrate; to reawake our ability to think deductively. We invite you to throw yourselves into some kinds of centrifugal runaway—disordered and off-track. Maybe we came from similar worlds. Put on the gloves, throw the coin to any direction, and guess where Schrodinger’s cat will land at this moment.
Wang Heng’s paintings mirror the reality, modern syndrome feels a little loneliness and freedom in the swing world under her brushes. FENG Shan’s sculpture slowly launched a 'not-present’ assumptions to us with a cold sense of material language. If time and previous experience are invalid here, maybe Zhang Yi’s coordinate system can help us to reach a possible solution. However, the outcome may surprise everyone when we see the clues left by Yuxuan Shao’s name list.
Looking back, artists, writers, musicians and scientists who have created new worlds, their awareness and compassion for people and things around them that stimulate and drive their sharp thinking. The answer is not important. It may be a better state of life to keep youthful curiosity and calm thinking at the same time. ‘Doubt is addictive and when it does emerge, it tends to spread at an alarming rate like a gathering cloud.’
