Jenwei Huang

Hanzi Gong - Heart (2022)

Jenwei Huang is a contemporary artist with an MFA from National Kaohsiung Normal University. His practice is grounded in the concept of “Meta-Hanzi” (元漢字), a framework that investigates how writing systems shape cultural memory, structures of knowledge, and the conditions of visibility. His work Hanzi GongHeart draws from the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary and focuses on 736 characters associated with the 心/忄 radical. Rather than treating these characters as linguistic units to be read, the work transforms them through layered deconstruction and “actual-character overload” (真字過載) into dense visual fields. Within this radical system, the heart radical becomes a site where emotion, thought and perception remain intertwined — a state in which pure feeling precedes definition. By suspending legibility, Huang examines how systems of language and information shape perception, while opening a space for human experience beyond fixed structures of meaning.

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