吉祥如 ช｜Auspicious as ช｜SAC Residency 駐村成果發表｜Open Studio

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SAC Residency 駐村成果發表｜Open Studio

《吉祥如 ช》

Auspicious as ช

吉祥如「 ช」，不「如意」。

本次駐村計畫成果發表從語言上的錯位與落差展開，將一個無法被完整理解的字形，作為觀看與思考的起點。此一語言與語意的偏移，回應了藝術家在泰國駐村期間，面對高度符號化的民間信仰與招財文化時，所反覆經驗到的理解不完整狀態。

「吉祥如意」原是一句祝賀語，指向對順遂、圓滿與好運的期待。然而，當句尾的「意」被替換為泰文字母「ช」時，語意便隨之中斷，原本所承載的祝福亦因此失效。這種「意」意置換所造成的語言斷裂，對應了作為外來者身處異地文化與語言系統中的觀看狀態，亦即，理解往往必須透過翻譯、猜測與反覆比對逐步拼湊而成。

作品《（空白）053.v2（Error）》即源自此一經驗。黃舜廷透過 Google 智慧鏡頭嘗試將原作中的漢字「吉」翻譯為泰文時，卻在系統的辨識偏誤中，將其誤判為一個經翻轉的泰文字母「ช」。此一字母本身並不構成詞彙，也無法乘載「吉」所包含的祝福意涵與文化重量。

正是在這樣的錯位之中，作品生成了一種貼近現實的經驗狀態：當我們置身於語言與文化皆尚未熟悉的環境時，觀看世界的方式往往如同隔著一層濾鏡，時而得以理解，時而僅能意會，而更多時候則落在一種「你以為你知道，卻並未真正理解」的狀態之中。在此，反覆轉譯與置換後所留下的符號、聲音或字形，遂成為創作者在移地創作過程中，面對理解失準與感知偏離所留下的經驗標記。

▎藝術家 Artist｜黃舜廷 Huang Shun-Ting

▎日期 Date｜2026/01/08（四）

▎時間 Time｜16:00-19:00

▎地點 Venue｜SAC Gallery(1F), Bangkok

▎主辦單位 Organizers｜SAC Gallery、節點藝術空間、TASA台灣藝文空間連線

SAC Residency

Open Studio | Huang Shun-Ting

Auspicious as ช

Auspicious as“ช”, not “as one wishes.”

This residency presentation unfolds from moments of linguistic misalignment and semantic slippage, taking an unreadable or only partially legible glyph as a point of departure for looking and thinking. Such shifts in language and meaning respond to the artist’s repeated experience of incomplete understanding while engaging with the highly symbolized systems of folk belief and prosperity culture encountered during the residency in Thailand.

“吉祥如意” is traditionally a blessing that expresses wishes for smoothness, fulfillment, and good fortune. However, when the final character “意” is replaced by the Thai letter “ช”, the phrase is abruptly severed from its meaning, and the auspicious intent it once carried collapses. This act of substitution produces a rupture in language that mirrors the experience of being a foreigner situated within an unfamiliar cultural and linguistic system—where understanding rarely arrives fully formed, but must instead be gradually assembled through translation, conjecture, and repeated comparison.

The work (blank) 053.v2 (Error) emerges directly from this experience. While using Google Lens to translate the Chinese character “吉” into Thai, Huang Shun-Ting encountered a misrecognition generated by the system, which identified the character as an inverted Thai letter “ช”. This letter does not constitute a word, nor can it carry the blessing, symbolic resonance, or cultural weight embedded in the original character.

It is precisely within this misalignment that the work generates a condition closely aligned with lived experience. When immersed in an environment where language and culture have yet to become familiar, perception often operates as if filtered—at times allowing comprehension, at times only partial intuition, and more often settling into a state in which you think you know, but do not truly understand. In this context, the residual symbols, sounds, and letterforms left behind through repeated translation and substitution become experiential markers of interpretive failure and perceptual drift encountered during the artist’s process of working across locations.

Huang Shun-Ting

Thursday, 8 January 2026

From 16:00 to 19:00

SAC Gallery, 1st Floor, Bangkok

Organizers:

SAC Gallery, Zit-Dim Art Space, Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA)