fierce, in silence.
The below article was included in an artist book with texts and drawings by Lee Kit, published on the occasion of Lee Kit: Resonance of a sad smile.
stiffness, coldness, solitude, but not calm
there’s indignation, aggression but repressed
a subdued anger is floating in the air
structure, order, but dim and diminish throughout the change of lighting
day time and night time from the window view of Kit’s temporary flat
a temporary home he has to pass by
he’s a traveller, always in mobile, he submits to it
always keep a certain distance, from Home, where is the foundation of his frustration and needed to transform or restore in a new city.
He withdraws sentiments from narratives
because it might unveil the violence hidden inside, that he tries so hard to contain it, ignore it, and slough over.
solitude has been written down, “desire can’t be fixed to writing in a book”.
those empty pages, blank spaces are to be filled in with resentment in life.
This is an artist’s book, a selection of Kit’s personal writings, drawings, snapshots, a book pulling things in a winder context, but through a naked eye .
the title of the exhibition is called “resonance of a sad smile”. what does that smile imply?
when I saw the show two days prior to the opening, Kit is still in the final process of fine-tuning the works. I said to him “this is a fierce show, you are angry, but in silence.”
some bleak scent dissolved in the pervasive light of ordinaries
what to reduce and what to increase is like a meditation
banal is good
words don’t cooperate with images
music doesn’t dance with emotions
they are unexplained, indirect. Is he promising a better life? or he is just being sarcastic.
only if he can register a place to rest
maybe all what Kit has been doing is to find a peace in mind, he hasn’t found it yet, so he continues traveling, planting seeds wherever his works belong to.
And we are the lucky ones. we believe when he said “it won’t get any better.”