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1. Eye series 2. Organic Concept
In the gallery many forms of life in the sea are swimming around in glitters. Yet a closer glance reveals that these organisms, which appear to be mollusks or floating
jellyfishes floating in their contraction movements, not fishes, are in fact artifacts made of everyday sundries such as plastic airtight containers like Tupper ware products, night lighting fixtures with sensors, plastic zippers, electric wires, water pumps, vinyl bags, cooling fans for computers and cheap dolls with motors. The combination of these miscellaneous articles represents a micro-universe in which organic creatures are living. Being operated not merely by mechanical power but by the low-techs such as water, air and light, these creatures create an air of fantasy in spite of the boorishness of those components.
Huang’s installations acquired a more fascinating coloring after his inquiry into the theme of bioluminescence in sea creature and insects during his participation in the research fellowship program at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in 2009. Yet these effects of lighting in his works have been based on the coherently operating sensor system employed since his early artistic efforts. The eyeballs of the blinking eyes move side to side, and when the sensor attached to the monitor detects the white part of the pupil, light comes on and when it does the black part of it, light comes off. This simple basic principle activates the whole of his ecosystem. Accordingly, it informs us that our optic angle toward nature itself can give rise to the horrible transmutations of the ecosystemas the eyesight functions the energy source of all things.
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