Food Art Festival “Savor Art !” Exhibition, K11

藝滋味「味不可言」展覽, K11

「苦後一點甜」

Sweetness Comes After Bitterness

Video installation

2010

此次選取「苦」為創作題材。

苦令我想起兒時（現在還是一樣）但凡頭暈身㷫，熱氣上火時的一碗靈丹妙藥 - 廿四味。在涼茶店被圓形玻璃片蓋着的廿四味一碗一碗的整齊列隊著恭候大駕光臨，人人你來我往，緊花數秒就把一碗涼茶吞下，一滴不留。味道不是主角，最緊要是能醫百病，延年益壽！
值着此些次幾會來次贈醫施藥，請身邊的親朋好友喝碗苦苦的廿四味，將他們喝的過程用攝錄機拍下，捕捉苦味帶來的些微面部變化，再用裝置的形式將影片展示於觀眾面前。觀眾雖不能親自嘗口廿四味，但作品的視覺影象能即時刺激觀者的味覺神經，出現身體自然反射而來的口中一點苦。
但凡領略口中苦味的觀眾都能得到苦後一點甜作為報嘗 - 可奬勵放在展櫃前的廿四味好伴侶-加應子 、陳皮妹 或山楂餅一粒 。

This time, I will treat my friends and family around a bowl of 24-flavours and take a video while they are drinking to capture their slight facial changes brought by the bitterness. The video will be displayed in the form of installation. Although visitors cannot try the herbal tea, the visual images of the video will immediately stimulate their sensory nerve which will generate a body’s reflex – tasting bitterness at mouth.

The sweetness comes after bitterness, also the good partner of 24–flavours, a preserved plum, chan pai mui or haw flakes.