Words&Lines
Categories
Exhibition
Collaborators
Solo Project
Material
Wood, Plastic
Keywords
Bamboo Slips Museum Exhibition Material Narrative Layered Reading Han Dynasty Text and Space
Year
2020
The proposal begins from the idea of returning to the object. Rather than presenting bamboo slips only as historical evidence or textual content, the exhibition treats them as material presences with weight, texture, fragmentation, and temporal depth. This approach asks how exhibition design might slow down reading and allow visitors to encounter the slips as both writing and matter.
The proposal begins from the idea of returning to the object. Rather than presenting bamboo slips only as historical evidence or textual content, the exhibition treats them as material presences with weight, texture, fragmentation, and temporal depth. This approach asks how exhibition design might slow down reading and allow visitors to encounter the slips as both writing and matter.
The overall strategy is structured around a layered reading experience. As suggested in the proposal, slips become the material quality of the space, individual texts act as bodies, and visitors form the line that connects different exhibition zones. Through this organisation, movement through the exhibition becomes a way of reading: from archaeological perspective, to historical process, to everyday life, and finally to the evolution of written language itself.
The overall strategy is structured around a layered reading experience. As suggested in the proposal, slips become the material quality of the space, individual texts act as bodies, and visitors form the line that connects different exhibition zones. Through this organisation, movement through the exhibition becomes a way of reading: from archaeological perspective, to historical process, to everyday life, and finally to the evolution of written language itself.
Words & Lines ultimately seeks to restore the human dimension carried within the bamboo slips. The exhibition is not only about displaying documents, but about allowing people to re-enter the worlds these documents once belonged to. By combining material atmosphere, textual structure, and bodily movement, the proposal repositions the museum as a place where objects are not only seen, but read, inhabited, and narrated again.
Words & Lines ultimately seeks to restore the human dimension carried within the bamboo slips. The exhibition is not only about displaying documents, but about allowing people to re-enter the worlds these documents once belonged to. By combining material atmosphere, textual structure, and bodily movement, the proposal repositions the museum as a place where objects are not only seen, but read, inhabited, and narrated again.
