The Reason for Insomnia

Activated by touch, the bed turns itself into a stage for dancing fire and blood. Viewers are hit by a huge impact, a visual memory shared by everyone. Yuan1s exquisite execution of realistic imagery and sound effect has succeeded in stealing collective secret from our mysterious lives. We take the insomnia clues as our cue to lurk into the bottom of us and search for pieces of imagery.

In his attempt to bond human emotions and senses by technology, Yuan faces the problems of this kinship, as he said, "Things are so honestly different, just like illusions." The "being" detected by him is straddling the border between surface and the underneath, light and the shadow. In the living struggles, the beauty of which is as true as flux of illusions; it garnishes the reality.

By projecting on the empty bed with clips that indicate senses of our absent body, Yuan Goang-Ming starts his conversation with the power coming directly from life. "The Reason for Insomnia" communicates with viewers, and this work of illusions serves as a tool for him to direct, disturb and manipulate us in reality.