WARRIOR | 戰士 - LING Pui Sze

WARRIOR

戰士

In nature, different living organisms may control the same body in various situations. Responding to such phenomena, Ling Pui Sze created the Warrior series where each of the organisms in it represents a warrior. The sculpture installations represent her imagination of how they would defy the laws of nature if they had free will.

自然界中，生物與生物之間會在不同情況下，同時操控一個軀體。《戰士》系列是凌佩詩對這自然現象的回應，在此系列裏，每一種生物都代表一個戰士，雕塑或裝置呈現了他們若果有自由意志時，會如何扺抗自然規律的想像。

Warrior 4 | 戰士四, 2019, Bamboo stick, wood, ink on paper, lead screw, 146 x 186 x 60cm

Warrior 4 uses cordyceps as the subject. Under normal circumstances, when an insect is encroached on by a mycelium, its body will be controlled by the mycelium and held fixed in a certain position. It will involuntarily produce spores to help spread the mycelium to seek its next host. Yet, the warrior in Warrior 4 resists the forcible restructuring of its body, twisting into a writhing and struggling form so that the spores can no longer ascend.

The work is made of bamboo strips, paper, wooden balls and screws, and is an early example of her attempts at paper collage sculpture. The complete, solid wooden ball (the spores) and the decaying, hollow paper structure (the worm) create a sense of powerlessness that emerges from the desperate struggle in the face of a foregone conclusion.

《戰士四》以蟲草為主體。昆蟲被菌絲佔據身體時，正常情況下牠會被菌絲控制身體並固定在某一位置上，被動地生出孢子，並散播菌絲以尋找下一個宿主。而《戰士四》的戰士則在身體被強行重組時作出抗衡，形成扭動掙扎的型態，孢子也不再往高處生長。

作品以竹篾、紙、木球和絲桿創作，是早期嘗試在紙紮雕塑上作拼貼的例子。完整而實心的木球（孢子）和腐朽而空心的紙紮（蟲），凝造在勝負已分的定局中極力掙扎的無力感。

Warrior 3 | 戰士三, 2017, bamboo stick, wood, paper, artificial hair, sound installation

Warrior 2 | 戰士二, 2016, glue, bamboo skin and towel and wood, dimensions variable

Warrior 1 | 戰士一, 2016, video, mixed media on paper and bamboo, dimensions variable