Be Happy


43"x 43”, 2020
Wood Panel, Book Pages
Be Happy deconstructs and reassembles a self-help book to explore the structure of textual information and modes of reading. While the original book delivers one motivational quote per day to foster optimism, the work reconfigures all pages into a single large panel, disrupting linear order and compelling viewers to confront every “encouragement” at once. This overload and fatigue respond to the shift from print culture to the digital information age, exposing how the function and value of pre-digital content have been displaced and rendered obsolete.

《Be Happy》通过拆解与重组一本自我激励读物,探索文本信息的结构与阅读方式。原书以每日一页的励志语句营造积极与乐观的情绪体验,而作品则将所有页面解构并拼接成一个整体面板,打破原有的线性逻辑,迫使观众一次性面对全部“激励”语句。这种信息的过载与感知疲劳回应了纸质阅读与数字化信息时代的差异,揭示了前数字化时代的信息功能与价值如何在当下被异化与淘汰。