RUI TIAN at MAAS A.R.

RUI TIAN is MAAS artist in residence from 15 December 2011 until 13 March 2012.

When I close my eyes

"My work is my pills. Everybody is a patient in a way. There is so much information and rubbish everywhere. So everybody needs a placebo to make him-self feel comfortable and keeps him in balance. Such as songs, keeping working, movies and friends. I am interested in the interspace between my dreams and reality. That’s where the work comes out. It could be a bridge which connects the two different worlds or a power which destroys both sides. The outside eyes are used to observe the surroundings and the inner eyes are used to feel and shoot my desire and subconscious. When I close my outside eyes my inner eyes open themselves. Something comes out naturally from the interspace between. It can be a short poem, an image, an action or other things which is hard to describe. Than I try to use different media to give them an extraordinary journey to make them live. Each work is part of the journey and I can only start but can’t finish it"    Rui Tian, Nov. 2011